The utility of naturalness, and how its application to quantum electrodynamics envisages the standard model and Higgs boson

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2015.01.002zbMath1307.81076arXiv1305.3434OpenAlexW2963624519MaRDI QIDQ2261520

James D. Wells

Publication date: 6 March 2015

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.3434

zbMATH Keywords

standard modelHiggs bosonquantum electrodynamicsnaturalness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Unified quantum theories (81V22) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Physics (00A79)

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