Comments on: Higgs turning up everywhere, this time in paint http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/2009/03/04/higgs-turning-up-everywhere-this-time-in-paint/ extra dimensions of particle physics Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:27:39 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Mary http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/2009/03/04/higgs-turning-up-everywhere-this-time-in-paint/comment-page-1/#comment-28111 Mary Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:04:43 +0000 http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/?p=2829#comment-28111 The American Physical Society (APS) awarded the 2010 J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics to Drs. C. Richard Hagen, University of Rochester; G.S. Guralnik, Brown University; T.W.B. Kibble, Imperial College London; R. Brout, Université Libre de Bruxelles; F. Englert, Université Libre de Bruxelles; and P.W. Higgs, University of Edinburgh, Emeritus. The J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics, sponsored by the family and friends of J. J. Sakurai. was established to recognize and encourage outstanding achievement in particle theory. The 2010 prize was awarded “For elucidation of the properties of spontaneous symmetry breaking in four-dimensional relativistic gauge theory and of the mechanism for the consistent generation of vector boson masses.” The J. J. Sakurai Prize will be presented at the APS 2010 meeting in Washington, DC at a special Ceremonial session in February 2010. The mechanism is the key element of the electroweak theory that forms part of the standard model of particle physics, and of many models, such as the Grand Unified Theory, that go beyond it. The papers that introduce this mechanism were published in Physical Review Letters in 1964 and were each recognized as milestone papers by PRL’s 50th anniversary celebration. Presently, Fermilab's Tevatron and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN are searching for a particle that will constitute evidence for this significant discovery. This particle is oftern referred to as the "God Particle". The American Physical Society (APS) awarded the 2010 J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics to Drs. C. Richard Hagen, University of Rochester; G.S. Guralnik, Brown University; T.W.B. Kibble, Imperial College London; R. Brout, Université Libre de Bruxelles; F. Englert, Université Libre de Bruxelles; and P.W. Higgs, University of Edinburgh, Emeritus. The J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics, sponsored by the family and friends of J. J. Sakurai. was established to recognize and encourage outstanding achievement in particle theory. The 2010 prize was awarded “For elucidation of the properties of spontaneous symmetry breaking in four-dimensional relativistic gauge theory and of the mechanism for the consistent generation of vector boson masses.” The J. J. Sakurai Prize will be presented at the APS 2010 meeting in Washington, DC at a special Ceremonial session in February 2010.

The mechanism is the key element of the electroweak theory that forms part of the standard model of particle physics, and of many models, such as the Grand Unified Theory, that go beyond it. The papers that introduce this mechanism were published in Physical Review Letters in 1964 and were each recognized as milestone papers by PRL’s 50th anniversary celebration.

Presently, Fermilab’s Tevatron and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN are searching for a particle that will constitute evidence for this significant discovery. This particle is oftern referred to as the “God Particle”.

]]> By: Larry http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/2009/03/04/higgs-turning-up-everywhere-this-time-in-paint/comment-page-1/#comment-11509 Larry Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:10:09 +0000 http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/?p=2829#comment-11509 Shhh. You will ruin the Nobel math of three for Peter. Shhh. You will ruin the Nobel math of three for Peter.

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