Englert-Brout-Higgs-Guralnik-Hagen-Kibble mechanism
From Scholarpedia
| This article has not been peer-reviewed or accepted for publication yet; It may be unfinished, contain inaccuracies, or unapproved changes. | ||||||||||||||||||||
(Redirected from Brout-Englert-Higgs-Guralnik-Hagen-Kibble mechanism)
Author: Prof. Tom W B Kibble, The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, UK
on Amazon.Prof. Tom Kibble accepted the invitation on 1 October 2008 (self-imposed deadline: 1 February 2009).
The article will cover the mechanism whereby gauge vector bosons acquire mass via the process of spontaneous symmetry breaking, which played a key role in the development of the unified electroweak theory, now part of the standard model of particle physics.
Editor's note: The title of this article has been chosen by the editor on the basis of the principle of maximal ---or so--- historical fairness and on the basis of a talk given by Steven Weinberg at BCS@50, held on 10–13 October 2007 at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the BCS paper.(Cern Courrier Jan 21, 2008, "From BCS to LHC"). The order of the three groups of authors reflects the historical order in which Physics Review Letter received and published the corresponding articles in its volume 13 (1964). RG, Editor of the Encyclopedia of Physics.
| Invited by: | Dr. Riccardo Guida, Institut de Physique Théorique; CEA, IPhT; CNRS; Gif-sur-Yvette, France |
