This book attempts to trace the key experimental developments that led to the discovery of weak neutral currents in 1973 and the W, Z bosons in 1983, all of the results of which culminated in the identification of the unified-electroweak force.
1. The Weak Interaction Uncovered (H. Becquerel to W. Pauli): In the
Beginning (1896 1933)
2. Forty Years of Weak Interactions (Charged
Currents): Fermi to Fermilab (1933 1973)
3. The Search for Other Forms of
the Weak Interaction: Changing Flavors (1963 1970)
4. The Electroweak
Interaction Picture Emerges: Everyone Missed It (1962 1973)
5. The
Discovery of Weak Neutral Currents: Nothing In Nothing Out (1973 1974)
6.
Other Weak-Neutral Current Processes, Parity Violation in Weak Neutral
Currents, and sin2w: A Force in the Mirror (1975 1978)
7. On to the W and
Z Particles: The Electroweak Force Rises (1976 1983)
8. High Precision
Studies of the Electroweak Force: From the Top Down (1983 1995)
9. Back to
the Future with the Higgs Boson: The God Particle Again (1995 2010)
Cline, David
