The History of the Guralnik, Hagen and Kibble Development of the Theory of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Gauge Particles (original) (raw)
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Abstract
I discuss historical material about the beginning of the ideas of spontaneous symmetry breaking and particularly the role of the paper by Guralnik, Hagen and Kibble 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 nontrivial interactions.
Publication:
International Journal of Modern Physics A
Pub Date:
2009
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Keywords:
- 11.25.Hf;
- 123.1K;
- Conformal field theory algebraic structures;
- Physics - History of Physics;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- High Energy Physics - Theory
E-Print:
26 pages, historical review