Electroweak Unification

Accepted · 1967

Status: Accepted
Year: 1967

Summary

Electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force as two aspects of one interaction, split apart as the early universe cooled. The predicted W and Z bosons turned up at CERN in 1983, at the predicted masses.

Timeline

Electroweak Symmetry Breaking

Equations

Fine-Structure Constant Standard Model Lagrangian Higgs Potential

Proponent

Gerard 't Hooft Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow Abdus Salam

Referenced by

equation

Fine-Structure Constant Higgs Potential Standard Model Lagrangian

event

Electroweak Symmetry Breaking

researcher

Abdus Salam Gerard 't Hooft Sheldon Glashow Steven Weinberg

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