The History of the Guralnik, Hagen and Kibble development of the Theory of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Gauge Particles
Jul, 200926 pages
Published in:
- Int.J.Mod.Phys.A 24 (2009) 2601-2627
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- 0907.3466 [physics.hist-ph]
Report number:
- BROWN-HET-1555
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Abstract: (arXiv)
I discuss historical material about the beginning of the ideas of spontaneous symmetry breaking and particularly the role of the Guralnik, Hagen Kibble paper in this development. I do so adding a touch of some more modern ideas about the extended solution-space of quantum field theory resulting from the intrinsic nonlinearity of non-trivial interactions.- 11.25.Hf
- Symmetry breaking
- GHK mechanism
- history
- spontaneous symmetry breaking
- Jona-Lasinio-Nambu model
- Goldstone theorem
- gauge boson: massless
- gauge boson: massive
- gauge field theory
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