edited by Gordon L Kane (Univ. Michigan)

The masses of fermions and gauge bosons enter the Standard Model through the Higgs mechanism, which is satisfactory technically but is not understood physically. We do not know what nature really does to give mass to particles, nor what experimental clues will lead us to nature's solution. Understanding Higgs physics is necessary in order to complete the Standard Model, and to learn how to extend it and improve its foundations.

This book is a collection of current work and thinking about these questions by active workers. It speculates about what form the answers will take, as well as updates and extends previous books and reviews. Some chapters emphasize theoretical questions, some focus on connections with other areas of physics, and some discuss how we can get the data to uncover nature's solution.

• The Higgs System (M Veltman)
• Constraints on Higgs Boson Properties from the Higgs Potential (M Sher)
• Higgs Bosons in the Minimal Supersymmetric Model: The Influence of Radiative Corrections (H E Haber)
• Producing the Intermediate Mass Higgs Boson (S Dawson)
• Search for Higgs Bosons with Isolated Photons at Large Hadron Colliders (Z Kunszt)
• Detecting the Supersymmetric Higgs Bosons (J F Gunion)
• What Kind of Higgs Boson Is It? (G L Kane)
• Electroweak Breaking in Supersymmetric Models (L E Ibáñez and G G Ross)
• Addressing the Mysterious with the Obscure — CP Violation via Higgs Dynamics (I I Bigi et al.)
• Electroweak Baryogenesis (N Turok)
• Why I Would Be Very Sad If a Higgs Boson Were Discovered (H Georgi)
• Strong W W Scattering at the SSC and LHC (M S Chanowitz)
• Equivalence Theorem and Scattering of Longitudinal Vector Bosons (H Veltman)
• Proposals for Studying TeV W_LW_L → W_LW_L Interactions Experimentally (C-P Yuan)
• The Revival of Technicolor Models (M B Einhorn)
• Top Quark Condensates (C T Hill)