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Chinese Journal of Nature ›› 2013, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (6): 402-407.

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The mystery of the source of mass: the BEH mechanism and Higgs Boson: A brief introduction to the Noble Prize in Physics 2013

WANG Huan-yu①，CHEN Xing②，HUANG Fei-jie③，LIU Wu-ming④   

  1. ①Undergraduate, Department of Physics, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China; Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190，China; ②Undergraduate, Department of Mathematics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China；Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; ③Ph.D. Candidate, ④Professor, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
  • Received:2013-10-29 Revised:2013-11-29 Online:2013-12-25 Published:2013-12-25

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Abstract:  How particles obtain the mass has long been puzzled to the physicists. In 1964，Englert，Brout put forward a mechanism about local spontaneous symmetry breaking and solved the problem. Soon afterwards, Higgs proposed the same theory (Englert and Brout’s paper has not been published yet). The predicted Higgs boson has long been hard to be found until 2012. The Higgs boson was finally found in the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) built by the CERN at the price of 6 billions. Two experiment groups ATLAS and CMS within the CERN accomplished the finding work independently, which proved the BEH mechanism. Englert and Higgs were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their theory.

Key words: Higgs mechanism, boson, spontaneous symmetry breaking, mass