Front Cover; The Standard Model Higgs Boson; Copyright page; Preface; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; Introduction; Outline of Book; Notational Conventions; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1. Review of the Standard Model; Chapter 2. Decays; Paper 2.1. Decays of Heavy Vector Mesons into Higgs Particles; Paper 2.2. A PHENOMENOLOGICAL PROFILE OF THE HIGGS BOSON; 1. Introduction; 2. Couplings and mass of the Higgs boson; 3. Production of the Higgs boson; 4. Decays of the Higgs boson; 5. Discussion; References; Chapter 3. Very Light Mass; Paper 3.1. Is There a Light Scalar Boson?; I. INTRODUCTION

Paper 5.2. THE EFFECTIVE W APPROXIMATION*1. Introduction; 2 . The effective W approximation; 3. Applications of the efective W approximation; 4. Conclusion; References; Paper 5.3. THE EFFECTIVE W±, Z° APPROXIMATION FOR HIGH ENERGY COLLISIONS; References; Chapter 6 . The Virtual H-Boson -- Radiative Corrections; Paper 6.1. Weak-Interaction Corrections to the Muon Magnetic Momen and to Muonic-Atom Energy Levels*; Paper 6.2. STATIC QUANTITIES IN WEINBERG'S MODEL OF WEAK AND ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. STATIC QUANTITIES OF VECTOR BOSONS; 3. THE SELF-CHARGE OF THE NEUTRINO

4. THE MUON ANOMALY5. CONCLUSIONS; APPENDIX A; APPENDIX B; REFERENCES; Paper 6.3. ONE-LOOP CORRECTION TO VECTOR BOSON MASSES IN THE GLASHOW-WEINBERG-SALAM MODEL OF ELECTROMAGNETIC AND WEAK INTERACTIONS; References; Paper 6.4. RADIATIVE CORRECTIONS TO VECTOR BOSON MASSES; References; Paper 6.5. SECOND THRESHOLD IN WEAK INTERACTIONS; 1. Introduction; 2. The model; 3. One loop divergencies; 4. Radiative corrections to the vector boson mass; 5. Radiative corrections to the WWW vertex; 6. Conclusions; APPENDIX A; APPENDIX B; APPENDIX C; APPENDIX D; REFERENCES