Episode 164: Gauge Theory and the Higgs Boson

The Science of Everything Podcast by James Fodor

Aug 30, 202664:49Science & Medicine

We conclude our series on the standard model with an introduction to gauge theory. We discuss how the requirement of local gauge invariance generates interaction terms in the Lagrangian, and introduce the U(1) x SU(2) x...

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