Nobel Lecture: The BEH mechanism and its scalar boson
CONTENTS I. Introduction: Short and long range interactions 843 II. Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking 844 A. Spontaneous symmetry breaking in phase transitions 844 B. Spontaneous symmetry breaking in field theory 845 III. The BEH Mechanism 846 A. The fate of the Nambu-Goldstone boson and vector boson masses 846 B. The fate of the massive scalar boson 847 C. Fermion masses 848 D. Why is the mechanism needed? 848 E. Dynamical symmetry breaking 848 F. The electroweak theory and the standard model 848 IV. The Discovery 849 References 850