Name: Genesis of Electroweak Unification and the Higgs
Start: 2014-10-10T16:30:00+02:00
End: 2014-10-10T17:30:00+02:00
Location: CERN

Description

I will give a historical account of the developments leading up to the unification of weak and electromagnetic interactions, as I saw them from my standpoint in Imperial College London. I will describe the state of physics in the 1950s, the aim of finding a unified theory of various interactions, the obstacles encountered in trying to unify the weak and electromagnetic interactions, and their eventual resolution, with a brief discussion of the later history culminating in the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012.

Organised by

Wolfgang LERCHE PH/TH & Tejinder VIRDEE PH/UCM........Tea and coffee will be served at 16h00

Webcast

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Genesis of Electroweak Unification and the Higgs

by Prof. Tom W B Kibble (Imperial College London)

503/1-001 - Council Chamber

CERN