FROM BCS TO THE LHC

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 30 Apr 2008 English Publisher:World Scientific Pub Co Pte LtJournal:International Journal of Modern Physics A, volume 23, pages 1,627-1,635 (issn: 0217-751X, eissn: 1793-656X,

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Authors: Weinberg, Steven;

doi: 10.1142/s0217751x0804038x

FROM BCS TO THE LHC

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Abstract

Reflections on spontaneous symmetry breaking, and the connection between condensed matter physics and particle physics, as given in a talk at a symposium at the University of Illinois in Urbana, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the theory of superconductivity.

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History of mathematics in the 20th century, BCS theory, superconductivity, spontaneous symmetry breaking, elementary particle physics, Statistical mechanics of superconductors, History of statistical mechanics, bosons, history, LHC

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