Tag Archives: electroweak theory
The question of Abdus Salam ‘deserving’ his Nobel
Peter Woit has blogged about an oral history interview with theoretical physicist Sheldon Glashow published in 2020 by the American Institute of Physics. (They have a great oral history of physics series you should check out if you’re interested.) Woit … Continue reading
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Tagged Abdus Salam, BICEP2, Brian Keating, electroweak theory, ICTP Trieste, Nobel Prize for physics, Nobel Prizes, Norman Dombey, Paul Dirac, Peter Woit, Sheldon Glashow, Steven Weinberg
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Tom Kibble (1932-2016)
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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Tagged ABEGHHK'tH mechanism, electroweak symmetry breaking, electroweak theory, Francois Englert, gauge bosons, Gerald Guralnik, Higgs mechanism, Kibble-Zurek mechanism, Peter Higgs, Richard Hagen, theoretical particle physics, Tom Kibble
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Colliders of the future: LHeC and FCC-he
Because powerful accelerators take at least a decade to realise, physicists have started work on two machines to aid physics research of the future. Continue reading
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Tagged Compact Linear Collider, deep inelastic scattering, electroweak theory, Future Circular Collider, Higgs boson, International Linear Collider, LHeC, New Physics, quantum chromodynamics, Sokolov-Ternov effect
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