A Brief Course in Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking II. Modern Times: The BEH Mechanism
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The theory of symmetry breaking in presence of gauge fields is presented, following the historical track. Particular emphasis is placed upon the underlying concepts. Invited talks presented at the 2001 Corfu Summer Institute on Elementary Particle Physics 2 E-mail : [email protected]
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Nobel Lecture: The BEH mechanism and its scalar boson
CONTENTS I. Introduction: Short and long range interactions 843 II. Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking 844 A. Spontaneous symmetry breaking in phase transitions 844 B. Spontaneous symmetry breaking in field theory 845 III. The BEH Mechanism 846 A. The fate of the Nambu-Goldstone boson and vector boson masses 846 B. The fate of the massive scalar boson 847 C. Fermion masses 848 D. Why is the mechanis...
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