electroweak symmetry breaking

Tom Kibble (1932-2016)

Jun 11, 2016 2 min read

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

"Maybe the Higgs boson is fictitious!"

Feb 7, 2015 2 min read

Uncategorized Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer superconductivity critical temperature electroweak symmetry breaking gauge bosons Higgs mechanism Higgs mode Philip Warren Anderson

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 Janu…

What's allowed and disallowed in the name of SUSY

Jun 24, 2012 6 min read

Uncategorized bosinos dark matter electroweak symmetry breaking Hideki Yukawa hierarchy problem Higgs field ICHEP Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model Quantum mechanics sfermions superpartner supersymmetry Yukawa coupling

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 keepi…