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082			_a530.81 _bH794i
100			_aHosotani, Yutaka
245			_aAn Introduction to gauge-higgs unification _bextra dimensions in particle physics _cYutaka Hosotani
260			_bWorld Scientific _c2025 _aSingapore
300			_axii, 265p
520			_aWhat is the Higgs boson? How are all forces unified in particle physics? What is a mechanism for gauge symmetry breaking? Are there extra dimensions in spacetime? The Higgs boson discovered in 2012 is a crucial piece in the standard model for unifying electromagnetic and weak forces. Gauge symmetry is spontaneously broken by the Higgs mechanism. There is an alternative scenario. In the Hosotani mechanism gauge symmetry is spontaneously broken by dynamics of gauge fields in the fifth dimension. The Higgs boson appears as a fluctuation mode of an Aharonov-Bohm phase in the fifth dimension. This leads to the scenario of gauge-Higgs unification. In this book gauge-Higgs unification is introduced from the basics and is applied to electroweak unification. It is seen that gauge-Higgs unification gives nearly the same phenomenology at low energies as the standard model, and leads to many predictions to be confirmed in future experiments.
650			_aGauge-higgs unification
942			_cBK
999			_c567568 _d567568