The Standard Model Article Swipe
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· 2023
· Open Access
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· DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30466-8_1
· OA: W4377822089
The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics constitutes one of the greatest scientific achievements in modern history. Based on empirical evidence gathered by experiments over the course of more than 100 years, the SM provides a single elegant theoretical framework which describes the interactions between all known elementary particles to astonishing levels of precision. Starting with the discovery of the electron by J.J. Thomson in 1897 [1] and developed over the course of much of the 20th century, this theory represents the culmination of a decades long effort to understand the dynamics of elementary particles at ever-increasing energies. The discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012 [2, 3] completed our current picture of the SM and underlined the predictive power of the theory, cementing its place in scientific history as one of the most successful models of all time.
