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Muon physics — Survey
Florian Schecksubject
PhysicsHiggs fieldParticle physicsMuonMesonSpontaneous symmetry breakingSymmetry breakingQuantum field theoryNoncommutative geometryStandard Modeldescription
The empirical basis of the minimal standard model has been consolidated in an impressive way, over the last seventeen years, by precision experiments at the meson factories. I illustrate this by means of selected examples of muonic weak interaction processes. I then describe an extension of Yang-Mills theory, inspired by noncommutative geometry, that yields precisely the standard model but fixes and explains some of its empirical input. In particular, this new approach yields a simple geometrical interpretation of spontaneous symmetry breaking. The algebraic framework of this approach offers a natural place for the lepton and quark matter fields and for inter-family mixing.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992-01-01 |