Broken Symmetry Paper
Publishes a spontaneous-symmetry-breaking mechanism with Robert Brout.
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1964 in Belgium
Explore 10 historical events and records for Belgium in 1964.
Historical records for Belgium in 1964
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Englert-Brout Mechanism
Explains how gauge particles can acquire mass through a scalar field.
Higgs Boson
Coauthors with Francois Englert the Physical Review Letters paper Broken Symmetry and the Mass of Gauge Vector Mesons.
Higgs Boson
Publishes with Robert Brout the first 1964 gauge-symmetry paper establishing a mechanism by which gauge vector bosons can acquire mass.
Physical Review Letters
Publishes with Francois Englert the paper Broken Symmetry and the Mass of Gauge Vector Mesons in Physical Review Letters.
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Gauge Symmetry
Develops with Francois Englert a mechanism in which spontaneous symmetry breaking gives mass to gauge vector particles without abandoning local gauge symmetry.
Higgs Field
The Higgs mechanism, which gives mass to vector bosons, is theorized in 1964 by Francois Englert and Robert Brout ("boson scalaire")
Higgs Field
The Higgs mechanism, which gives mass to vector bosons, is theorized in 1964 by Francois Englert and Robert Brout ("boson scalaire")
Mass Generation
Shows with Francois Englert that gauge fields can absorb degrees of freedom from a scalar field and thereby become massive.
Professorship
Becomes a professor at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles in the year of his landmark symmetry-breaking work.
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