Higgs boson

なんといっても昨日のビッグニュース、いや間違いなく今年最大級のビッグな科学のニュースはこれでしょう。

I majored in particle theory in college and graduate school, so I know the theoretical background of the Higgs. The Higgs is the most basic of all, isn’t it? I studied it very carefully, so I don’t forget it so easily.

However, it’s something I learned more than 10 years ago, so I thought I’d try studying it for the first time in a while, and looked at my bookshelf.

But I kept this book of memories. Well, I miss it.

An Introduction To Quantum Field Theory (Frontiers in Physics)

Michael E. Peskin Daniel V. Schroeder

It was a standard textbook when I was in university. I bought this when I was a 4th year university student, to read it in a circle as a research project.

It used to take me days to read a page….

I think another book that has helped me a lot is this one.

ゲージ場の量子論〈1〉 (新物理学シリーズ)

Kugo Taichirou

ゲージ場の量子論〈2〉 (新物理学シリーズ)

Kugo Taichirou

Actually, I haven’t read chapter 20 of Peskin&Schroeder properly, which I introduced earlier, because I studied about Higgs mechanism here first (laughs).

Well, I learned it directly from the author himself when I was an undergraduate in a class or when I was reading a research project. (He was my instructor for my research project.)

それにしても今の素粒子論の学生はどんな本で勉強しているのかなー。