“Global Conservation Laws and Massless Particles”

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“Global Conservation Laws and Massless Particles” is a seminal theoretical physics paper by Gerald Guralnik that contributed to the understanding of spontaneous symmetry breaking and the origin of mass in quantum field theory.

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instanceOf scientific paper
theoretical physics paper
addresses conditions for the appearance of massless modes
constraints from global symmetries on particle spectra
author Gerald Guralnik
surface form: Gerald S. Guralnik
context quantum field theory of interacting fields
contributionTo understanding of spontaneous symmetry breaking
understanding of the origin of mass in quantum field theory
describedAs seminal paper in theoretical physics
seminal work on spontaneous symmetry breaking
field quantum field theory
theoretical physics
focusesOn implications of symmetry breaking for particle masses
relationship between global conservation laws and massless excitations
hasAuthor Gerald Guralnik
Gerald Guralnik
surface form: Gerald S. Guralnik
hasSubjectArea high-energy physics
particle physics
symmetry principles in physics
influenced later work on the Standard Model of particle physics
language English
partOf historical development of the Higgs mechanism
relatedTo Goldstone bosons
surface form: Goldstone theorem

Higgs mechanism
electroweak symmetry breaking
gauge symmetry breaking
mass generation for gauge bosons
topic global conservation laws
massless particles
origin of mass
spontaneous symmetry breaking
symmetry breaking in quantum field theory

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Gerald Guralnik notableWork “Global Conservation Laws and Massless Particles”
this entity surface form: “Broken Symmetries and the Masses of Gauge Bosons”