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The BEH mechanism and its scalar bosons

Francois Englert · CERN

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In the beginning of the 1960's, the long range interactions within our universe were well understood from the laws of classical general relativity, Einstein's generalisation of Newtonian gravity, and of quantum electrodynamics, the quantum version of Maxwell's electromagnetic theory. But there was no hints of how to formulate consistent fundamental theories of short range interactions.

A solution to this problem was proposed by Robert Brout and me, and independently by Peter Higgs. I shall explain our motivations for constructing this BEH mechanism and discuss its content. I will comment on how the magnificent ATLAS and CMS discovery at CERN of the scalar boson predicted by the mechanism confirms its validity and may have implications on structures at yet unexplored energies..

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  1. The BEH mechanism and its scalar bosons 2014-02-21 · 1 h 13 min · CERN's player

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CERN
Department
CERN Colloquium
Speaker
Francois Englert
Year
2014
Language
English
Source
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