Introduction to Electroweak Symmetry Breaking

Abstract

In these lectures, I review the status of the electroweak sector of the Standard Model, with an emphasis on the importance of radiative corrections and searches for the Standard Model Higgs boson. A discussion of the special role of the TeV energy scale in electroweak physics is included.

24 pages, Lectures given at the XIII Mexican School of Particles and Fields, 2-11 October, 2008, Sonora, Mexico

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• Higgs Bosons, Electroweak Symmetry Breaking, and the Physics of the Large Hadron Collider

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