The book helps to better understand the physics of mass generation in the universe, one of the hot topics in the area of elementary particle physics.

Autorentext
The book helps to better understand the physics of mass generation in
the universe, one of the hot topics in the area of elementary particle
physics.

Inhalt
Introduction.- Effective Theories of Electroweak Interactions: Fermi Theory, Massive Gauge Bosons, the Chiral Lagrangian, the Standard Model and beyond.- Scattering Amplitudes of Massive Vector Bosons: Goldstone Boson Scattering, Resonances, Non-Resonant Inelastic Scattering.- Collider Signatures: Precision Observables, W and Z Scattering Amplitudes, Lepton Colliders, Hadron Colliders.- Outlook.