Flavor Physics and the TeV Scale (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009)

The ?avor sector carries the largest number of parameters in the Standard Model of particle physics. With no evident symmetry principle behind its existence, it is not as well understood as the SU(3)xSU(2)xU(1) gauge interactions. Yet it tends to be underrated, sometimes even ignored, by the erudite. This is especially so on the verge of the LHC era, where the exploration of the physics of electroweak symmetry breaking at the high energy frontier would soon be the main thrust of the ?eld. Yet, the question of "Who ordered the muon?" by I. I. Rabi lingers. We do not understand why there is "family" (or generation) replication. That three generations are needed to have CP violation is a partial answer. We do not understand why there are only three generations, but Nature insists on (just about) only three active neutrinos. But then the CP violation with three generations fall far short of what is needed to generate the baryon asymmetry of the Universe. We do not understand why most fermions are so light on the weak symmetry breaking scale (v. e. v. ), yet the third-generation top quark is a v. e. v. scale particle. We do not understand why quarks and leptons look so different, in particular, why neutrinos are rather close to being massless, but then have (at least two) near maximal mixing angles. We shall not, however, concern ourselves with the neutrino sector. It has a life of its own."

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, 233
Release date:	October 2010
First published:	2009
Authors:	George W.S. Hou
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	143
Edition:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009
ISBN-13:	978-3-642-10087-1
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Particle & high-energy physics Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Quantum physics (quantum mechanics) > General
LSN:	3-642-10087-2
Barcode:	9783642100871

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