The construction of the Higgs mechanism and the emergence of the electroweak theory

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2012.05.003zbMath1281.81065OpenAlexW2081362741MaRDI QIDQ2436234

Koray Karaca

Publication date: 21 February 2014

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2012.05.003

zbMATH Keywords

quantum field theoryHiggs bosonspontaneous symmetry breakingelectroweak theoryGoldstone theoremHiggs mechanismzero-mass problem of Yang-Mills theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of quantum theory (81-03) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40)

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