From a boson to the standard model Higgs: a case study in confirmation and model dynamics.
Our paper studies the anatomy of the discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider and its influence on the broader model landscape of particle physics. We investigate the phases of this discovery, which led to a crucial reconfiguration of the model landscape of elementary particle physi...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 198; pp. 3779 - 3812 |
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