A Philosophical Look at the Higgs Mechanism
A Philosophical Look at the Higgs Mechanism
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DOI：
10.1007/s10838-014-9257-5
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发表时间：
2014-07
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1
通讯作者：
S. Friederich
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作者：
S. Friederich
在最近的实验检测的希格斯粒子在欧洲核子研究中心的大型强子对撞机，本文回顾了希格斯机制的哲学方面，目前首选的帐户产生的粒子质量的基本粒子物理学的标准模型和它的最讨论的扩展。这篇论文有两个目的：一方面，它向不熟悉希格斯机制的读者介绍了希格斯机制及其最有趣的哲学方面;另一方面，它澄清了与规范对称性及其破缺的作用有关的广泛误解。
On the occasion of the recent experimental detection of a Higgs-type particle at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the paper reviews philosophical aspects of the Higgs mechanism as the presently preferred account of the generation of particle masses in the Standard Model of elementary particle physics and its most discussed extensions. The paper serves a twofold purpose: on the one hand, it offers an introduction to the Higgs mechanism and its most interesting philosophical aspects to readers not familiar with it; on the other hand, it clarifies widespread misunderstandings related to the role of gauge symmetries and their breaking in it.