The History of the Guralnik, Hagen and Kibble development of the Theory of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Gauge Particles

Jul, 2009
26 pages
Published in:
  • Int.J.Mod.Phys.A 24 (2009) 2601-2627
e-Print:
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