Fundamentals of electroweak theory

TL;DR

This book provides an updated comprehensive overview of electroweak theory, reflecting the completion of the Standard Model with the Higgs boson discovery and including recent corrections and clarifications.

Contribution

It offers an updated and corrected version of the author's previous book on electroweak theory, incorporating the Higgs boson discovery and recent advancements.

Findings

Inclusion of the Higgs boson discovery in electroweak theory

Updated explanations and corrections to previous content

Enhanced accessibility through open e-print publication

Abstract

The present text is an updated version of an earlier author's book on the electroweak theory (published originally in 2002, ISBN 80-246-0639-9). It reflects the ultimate completion of the standard model by the long-awaited discovery of the Higgs boson (ten years after the first edition) and incorporates also some minor corrections of the previous text, removing typos, etc. As regards an immediate motivation to come up with such an update of the original rather old book, the 10th anniversary of the Higgs boson discovery seems to be an opportune moment for doing it now. The publication of the current upgraded text within the e-print arXiv is aimed at its best possible availability for any interested reader.