Particle physics books
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New to the genre? These 5 are the books to read first.
QED
Richard Phillips FeynmanFour lectures for a general audience on quantum electrodynamics, the framework for how light and charged particles interact; short and a good introduction to the way physicists think.
The First Three Minutes
Steven WeinbergDescribes the early universe in terms of particle interactions and nuclear reactions, linking particle physics to cosmology.
The God Particle
Dick TeresiA history of the search for the Higgs boson and of the Standard Model, written by a Nobel-winning experimentalist; the title is the one the publisher chose and physicists often dislike.
The Particle at the End of the Universe
Sean M. CarrollAn account of the Large Hadron Collider and the Higgs discovery, explaining the Standard Model and its open problems.
Warped Passages
Lisa RandallIntroduces extra-dimensional theories and the hierarchy problem, showing how theorists propose beyond-Standard-Model ideas.
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