Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Gauge Theories: a Historical Survey
Abstract
The personal and scientific history of the discovery of spontaneous symmetry breaking in gauge theories is outlined and its scientific content is reviewed
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- February 1998
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.hep-th/9802142
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-th/9802142
- Bibcode:
- 1998hep.th....2142B
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 9 pages, LaTeX, 3 figures, reference added. Talks presented at the award ceremony of the 1997 High Energy and Particle Physics Prize of the European Physical Society (Jerusalem, 24 August 1997)