Spontaneous symmetry breaking, gauge theories, the higgs mechanism and all that

Bernstein, J.

doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.46.7

Spontaneous symmetry breaking, gauge theories, the higgs mechanism and all that

J. Bernstein
(
- Stevens Tech.
)

1974

42 pages

Published in:

Rev.Mod.Phys. 46 (1974) 7-48,
Rev.Mod.Phys. 47 (1975) 259-259 (erratum),
Rev.Mod.Phys. 46 (1974) 855-855 (erratum)

DOI:

10.1103/RevModPhys.46.7

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Abstract: (APS)

A more or less self-contained introductory review is presented of the so-called Higgs phenomenon. This is the mechanism by which, in a certain class of gauge theories, the "photon" and would-be Goldstone scalar mesons conspire together to produce massive vector mesons via a "spontaneous" breaking of gauge invariance. It is conceivable that this is the way in which nature has chosen to unify weak and electromagnetic interactions. It is hoped that a reader of this review will come to understand the meaning of the first three sentences in this abstract and will then be able to proceed to confront a rapidly growing literature in the subject of gauge theories.

review
field theory: gauge
symmetry: broken
model: higgs
field theory: goldstone theorem
s-matrix
model: weinberg
field theory: unified interaction
unified interaction: field theory

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