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Theory of Spontaneous Symmetry Breakdown and the Appearance of Massless Particles

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Elementary Particle Theories

Part of the book series: Acta Physica Austriaca ((FEWBODY,volume 3/1966))

Abstract

Broken symmetry solutions appeared in field theory when Nambu and Jona-Lasinio [1] tried to fashion a theory of strongly interacting particles analogous to the Bardeen, Cooper and Schrieffer [2] theory of superconductivity. The mass of the baryons was supposed to be completely dynamical — a result of spontaneous symmetry breakdown. The mass of the pions (analogs of the collective excitations of superconductivity) turned out to be zero. Soon afterwards Goldstone [3] conjectured that massless particles appear whenever spontaneous symmetry breakdown occurs. Arguments leading to this conclusion were later presented by Goldstone, Salam and Weinberg [4].

This is an abbreviation of a longer paper [12] by the same authors, as presented by Y. Frishman at the V. Internationalen Universitätswochen für Kernphysik, Schladming, 24 February – 9 March 1966

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Frishman, Y., Katz, A. (1966). Theory of Spontaneous Symmetry Breakdown and the Appearance of Massless Particles. In: Urban, P. (eds) Elementary Particle Theories. Acta Physica Austriaca, vol 3/1966. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-5566-0_5

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