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@unpublished{Duff:2020,
author = {Duff, MJ and Stelle, KS},
publisher = {arXiv},
title = {Sir Thomas Walter Bannerman Kibble CBE},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2011.13257v2},
year = {2020}
}
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AB - Professor Tom Kibble was an internationally-renowned theoretical physicistwhose contributions to theoretical physics range from the theory of elementaryparticles to modern early-universe cosmology. The unifying theme behind all hiswork is the theory of non-abelian gauge theories, the Yang-Mills extension ofelectromagnetism. One of Kibble's most important pieces of work in this areawas his study of the symmetry-breaking mechanism whereby the force-carryingvector particles in the theory can acquire a mass accompanied by the appearanceof a massive scalar boson. This idea, put forward independently by Brout andEnglert, by Higgs and by Guralnik, Hagen and Kibble in 1964, and generalised byKibble in 1967, lies at the heart of the Standard Model and all modern unifiedtheories of fundamental particles. It was vindicated in 2012 by the discoveryof the Higgs boson at CERN. According to Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg, "TomKibble showed us why light is massless"; this is the fundamental basis ofelectromagnetism.
AU - Duff,MJ
AU - Stelle,KS
PB - arXiv
PY - 2020///
TI - Sir Thomas Walter Bannerman Kibble CBE
UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/2011.13257v2
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/87355
ER -