World Scientific - A Major
Publisheron Higgs Boson
On July 4, scientists at the CERN research centre made a monumental announcement that they have discovered a particle believed to be the long-sought Higgs boson. Popularly known as the "God particle," the boson is posited to have been the agent that gave mass and energy to matter after the creation of the universe some 13.7 billion years ago. The CERN discovery is the most important Scientific breakthrough since the Apollo space program in the 1960s.
The story of the Higgs boson goes back to 1964, when the Belgian physicists Robert Brout and Fran.ois Englert, British physicist Peter Higgs at Edinburgh University, and Gerald Guralnik, Carl Hagen and Tom Kibble at Imperial College in London, proposed the idea of the Higgs field, in attempts to explain how otherwise massless particles could acquire mass.
In an article entitled "My Life as a Boson: The Story of 'The Higgs'", published in the International Journal of Modern Physics A (Vol. 17, Suppl. 2002, World Scientific), Prof. Higgs gave a first-hand account of his research into the Higgs particle. Other internationally recognized Scientific leaders in theoretical and particle physics who have published with our company on Higgs boson and related subjects, include Prof. Tom Kibble, Prof. Gordon Kane, Prof. Yoichiro Nambu, Prof. Martinus J.G. Veltman, and Prof. Kerson Huang. Two of these titles are shown here and four on the next page.
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