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Spontaneous symmetry breaking in gauge theories

Author(s) -

T. W. B. Kibble

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

philosophical transactions of the royal society a mathematical physical and engineering sciences

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.074

H-Index - 169

eISSN - 1471-2962

pISSN - 1364-503X

DOI - 10.1098/rsta.2014.0033

Subject(s) - spontaneous symmetry breaking , symmetry breaking , theoretical physics , higgs mechanism , higgs boson , gauge boson , physics , explicit symmetry breaking , symmetry (geometry) , particle physics , higgs field , global symmetry , gauge (firearms) , gauge symmetry , perspective (graphical) , gauge theory , chiral symmetry breaking , mathematics , history , geometry , archaeology

The aim of this historical article is to describe the development of the idea of spontaneous symmetry breaking in gauge theories as seen from my perspective as a member of Abdus Salam's group at Imperial College London, UK. Beginning with an account of particle physics in the years after the Second World War, I describe early attempts at constructing a unified theory of weak and electromagnetic interactions, the obstacles encountered and how they were eventually overcome with the mass-generating mechanism incorporating the idea of spontaneous symmetry breaking, one of whose features is the now-famous Higgs boson.

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