Spontaneous symmetry breaking in gauge theories
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Spontaneous symmetry breaking in gauge theories.
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...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1364-503X,1471-2962
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2014.0033