INFORMATION SOURCES and FURTHER READING
Books:
Higg Force: Cosmic Symmetry Shattered by Nicholas Mee (2012) - particularly the Appendix describing Landau's equation
Higgs, by Jim Baggott. Oxford University Press: Oxford. 2012 - particularly its chapter 4 and its glossary
The Particle at the End of the Universe by Sean Carroll. Oneworld Publications: London. 2012
The Physics Book, by Clifford Pickover. Sterling Publishing: New York. 2011.
The Theoretical Minimum, by Leonard Susskind. Basic Books, New York. 2013 - introduces "Lagrangian" equations and their importance in describing systems, such as the Standard Model of particles.
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter, published 1985. Written
by Richard Feynman, who was awarded a Nobel prize in 1965 for his work on quantum electrodynamics (QED)
Websites:
Particle Data Group, Univ of California (useful for latest consensus particle mass values)
http://pdg.lbl.gov
Minute Physics: The Higgs Boson, Part II: What is Mass?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASRpIym_jFM
Higgs, by Jim Baggott. Oxford University Press: Oxford. 2012 - particularly its chapter 4 and its glossary
The Particle at the End of the Universe by Sean Carroll. Oneworld Publications: London. 2012
The Physics Book, by Clifford Pickover. Sterling Publishing: New York. 2011.
The Theoretical Minimum, by Leonard Susskind. Basic Books, New York. 2013 - introduces "Lagrangian" equations and their importance in describing systems, such as the Standard Model of particles.
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter, published 1985. Written
by Richard Feynman, who was awarded a Nobel prize in 1965 for his work on quantum electrodynamics (QED)
Websites:
Particle Data Group, Univ of California (useful for latest consensus particle mass values)
http://pdg.lbl.gov
Minute Physics: The Higgs Boson, Part II: What is Mass?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASRpIym_jFM
Bojan Golli, Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana.
www2.pef.uni-lj.si/SEEMPE/index_files/Golli.pdf
Scholarpedia: Englert-Brout-Higgs-Guralnik-Hagen-Kibble mechanism, by Prof Tom Kibble.
http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Englert-Brout-Higgs-Guralnik-Hagen-Kibble_mechanism
American Physical Society.
http://www.physicscentral.com/buzz/blog/index.cfm?postid=5248358123737529836
Berkeley Lab.
http://www.particleadventure.org
Center for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago.
http://cosmicweb.uchicago.edu/sims.html
CERN public page: supersymmetry and search for gluiness
http://cms.web.cern.ch/news/supersymmetric-glue-search-gluinos
Official String Theory Website
http://www.superstringtheory.com
Starts With a Bang.
http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/
Liverpool University Particle Physics Group
http://hep.ph.liv.ac.uk/~tara/lectures/sm_handout.pdf
