The Higgs Puzzle

Download or read book The Higgs Puzzle written by B A Kniehl and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1997-07-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the great success of the standard model of electroweak and strong interactions to describe the phenomena observed in high energy physics experiments, the mechanism by which the elementary particles are endowed with their masses is yet to be unraveled. Does nature choose the Higgs mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking as predicted by the standard model, or do we need some alternative explanation? The purpose of the workshop is to capture new trends and ideas in this exciting area of fundamental physics, and to explore the potential of recent (LEPI), present (HERA, LEPII, SLC, Tevatron), and future (FMC, LHC, NLC) colliding-beam experiments to shed light on the Higgs puzzle. Contents:Analysis of the Z0 Resonant Amplitude in General Rξ Gauges and Related Problems (A Sirlin)Searches for Higgs Bosons at LEP2 and Status of ALEPH Four-Jet Events (P Janot)Aspects of Higgs Physics at the ILC (R Settles)Higgs Physics at a Muon Collider (J F Gunion)Radiative Corrections in the MSSM Higgs Sector (W Hollik)Unification or Compositeness? (P Langacker & J Erler)The Higgs Puzzle — What Can We Learn from Electroweak Phase Transition? (M E Shaposhnikov)Future Directions in Higgs Phenomenology (H E Haber)and other papers Readership: Physicists and postgraduate students in high energy physics. keywords:Higgs;Higgs Bosons;Muon Collider;Electroweak;Phenomenology