Prof. Svjetlana Fajfer: Origin of mass: Nobel Prize in Physics 2013
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Origin of mass: Nobel Prize in Physics 2013
Prof. Svjetlana Fajfer, Oddelek za fiziko FMF Univerze v Ljubljani in Institut "Jožef Stefan"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 was awarded to François Englert and Peter W. Higgs "for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider". In 1964 Englert, together with Robert Brout (died in 2011), and Higgs independently proposed a model, now known as the Brout-Englert-Higgs or BEH mechanism, which links mass of all fundamental particles to a proposed new particle. This particle, explicitly predicted by Higgs is now known as the Higgs boson.
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2013/
