Tag Archives: electroweak symmetry breaking

Tom Kibble (1932-2016)

Posted on June 11, 2016 by

Kibble was one of the six theorists who, in 1964, came up with the ABEGHHK’tH mechanism to explain how gauge bosons acquired mass. Continue reading →

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“Maybe the Higgs boson is fictitious!”

Posted on February 7, 2015 by

That’s an intriguing and, as he remarks, plausible speculation by the noted condensed-matter physicist Philip Warren Anderson. It appears in a short article penned by him in Nature Physics on January 26, in which he discusses how the Higgs mechanism as in … Continue reading →

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What’s allowed and disallowed in the name of SUSY

Posted on June 24, 2012 by

The International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP) is due to begin on July 7 in Melbourne. This is the 26th episode of the most prestigious scientific conference on particle physics. In keeping with its stature, scientists from the ATLAS … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bosinos, dark matter, electroweak symmetry breaking, Hideki Yukawa, hierarchy problem, Higgs field, ICHEP, Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, Quantum mechanics, sfermions, superpartner, supersymmetry, Yukawa coupling | Comments Off