The 2013 Nobel Prize for Physics
By: Augusto Barroso
From: CFTC-UL
At: Instituto de Investigação Interdisciplinar, Anfiteatro
[2013-10-30]
The most relevant works that led to the concept of spontaneous symmetry breaking and to the appearance of the Higgs boson will be reviewed. A short account on the role of the Higgs boson in the context of the Standard Model of particle physics will be given.