John S. Townsend

Harvey Mudd College

Why the Higgs Boson is Called “The God Particle”

Oct. 2, 2012

I will discuss how spontaneous symmetry breaking in gauge theories via the Higgs mechanism generates the masses of the elementary particles.
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