摘要
质量之谜长期以来一直困扰着物理学家们。直到1964年,恩格勒、布绕特与希格斯才提出了生成质量的机制,此机制中预言的希格斯玻色子一直萍踪难觅。为搜寻该粒子,欧洲核子中心(Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire,CERN)斥资60亿欧元建设大型强子对撞机(Large Hadron Collider,LHC)。2012年7月LHC的超环面实验组(A Toroidal LHC Apparatus,ATLAS)与紧凑渺子线圈实验组(Compact Muon Solenoid,CMS)分别宣布找到了希格斯粒子。至此,人类也揭开了上帝粒子的神秘面纱,此机制的提出者也被授予2013年诺贝尔物理学奖。
How particles obtain the mass has long been puzzled to the physicists. In 1964, Englert, Brout put forward a mechanism about local spontaneous symmetry breaking and solved the problem. Soon afterwards, Higgs proposed the same theory （Englert and Brout＇s paper has not been published yet）. The predicted Higgs boson has long been hard to be found until 2012. The Higgs boson was finally found in the LHC （Large Hadron Collider） built by the CERN at the price of 6 billions. Two experiment groups ATLAS and CMS within the CERN accomplished the finding work independently, which proved the BEH mechanism. Englert and Higgs were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their theory.
出处
《自然杂志》
北大核心
2013年第6期402-407,共6页
Chinese Journal of Nature
