Symmetry breaking, chiral dynamics, and fermion masses

✍ Scribed by Yoichiro Nambu

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 367 KB
• Volume: 638
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0375-9474
• DOI: 10.1016/s0375-9474(98)00353-4

✦ Synopsis

Spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) is one of the main paradig.ns of particle physics. I will briefly review 1) the general history of SSB, 2) the universal features and descriptions of gap formation and chirM dynamics in the BSC-type mechanisms in condensed matter, nuclear, and particle physics, and 3) some open problems including the mass hierarchy in the Standard Model and beyond.