arXiv:hep-ph/0401010hep-ph
The Making of the Standard Model
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Abstract
This is the edited text of a talk given at CERN on Septembr 16, 2003, as part of a celebration of the 30th anniversary of the discovery of neutral currents and the 20th anniversary of the discovery of the W and Z particles.
Try https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0401010 (maybe with some Wikipedia lookups along the way) by one (arguably the greatest) of its masterminds.
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