Broken Symmetries and the Masses of Gauge Bosons

Higgs’ 1964 Broken Symmetries and the Masses of Gauge Bosons, published in Physical Review Letters, is one of the program’s working technical references. Cited in Book IV (Categorical Microcosm), Part 3, Chapter The τ-Higgs Mechanism, where the program draws on it in the context of “This was the culmination of a 48-year search that began with Higgs’s 1964 paper —a two-page speculation that initially struggled to find a publisher.”