Evading the goldstone theorem

Abstract

Peter W. Higgs describes in detail his interest from 1960 in the work of Nambu and Goldstone and the background events leading to the papers of 1964 that showed how one can evade the Goldstone theorem using a gauge theory. He also discusses how these ideas have been developed by others to culminate in the electroweak theory of the Standard Model. Peter W. Higgs describes in detail his interest from 1960 in the work of Nambu and Goldstone and the background events leading to the papers of 1964 that showed how one can evade the Goldstone theorem using a gauge theory. He also discusses how these ideas have been developed by others to culminate in the electroweak theory of the Standard Model. © 2014 by WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.