The H Boson

This volume provides a detailed description of the seminal theoretical construction in 1964, independently by Robert Brout and Francois Englert, and by Peter W. Higgs, of a mechanism for short-range fundamental interactions, now called the Brout

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Costas Bachas Bertrand Duplantier Vincent Rivasseau Editors

The H Boson

Progress in Mathematical Physics Volume 72

Editors-in-chief Anne Boutet de Monvel, Université de Paris VII UFR de Mathematiques, Paris CX 05, France Gerald Kaiser, Center for Signals and Waves, Portland, Oregon, USA Editorial Board Sir M. Berry, University of Bristol, UK P. Blanchard, University of Bielefeld, Germany M. Eastwood, University of Adelaide, Australia A.S. Fokas, University of Cambridge, UK F.W. Hehl, University of Cologne, Germany and University of Missouri-Columbia, USA D. Sternheimer, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France C. Tracy, University of California, Davis, USA

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Costas Bachas • Bertrand Duplantier • Vincent Rivasseau Editors

The H Boson

Editors Costas Bachas École Normale Superieure Laboratoire de Physique Theorique Paris, France

Bertrand Duplantier Institut de Physique Théorique CEA/Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France

Vincent Rivasseau Université Paris-Sud Laboratoire de Physique Théorique Orsay, France

ISSN 1544-9998 ISSN 2197-1846 (electronic) Progress in Mathematical Physics ISBN 978-3-319-57408-0 ISBN 978-3-319-57409-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-57409-7 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017954501

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Contents Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Fran¸cois Englert The BEH Mechanism and