论文标题
托马斯·沃尔特·班纳曼爵士
Sir Thomas Walter Bannerman Kibble CBE
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论文摘要
汤姆·基布尔（Tom Kibble）教授是一位国际知名的理论物理学家，其对理论物理学的贡献从基本颗粒理论到现代的早期宇宙宇宙学。他所有作品背后的统一主题是非亚伯仪理论的理论，即电磁主义的Yang-Mills扩展。 Kibble在该领域最重要的作品之一是他对对称性的机制的研究，该机制在理论中，携带力的载体颗粒可以伴随着大量标量玻色子的出现。这个想法是由Brout and Englert，Higgs和Guralnik，Hagen and Kibble独立提出的，并于1967年由Kibble概括，是标准模型的核心，以及所有现代的基本颗粒理论。它在2012年通过在Cern发现了Higgs玻色子来证明它。根据诺贝尔奖获得者史蒂文·温伯格（Steven Weinberg）的说法，“汤姆·基布尔（Tom Kibble）向我们展示了为什么光是无质量的”。这是电磁主义的基本基础。
Professor Tom Kibble was an internationally-renowned theoretical physicist whose contributions to theoretical physics range from the theory of elementary particles to modern early-universe cosmology. The unifying theme behind all his work is the theory of non-abelian gauge theories, the Yang-Mills extension of electromagnetism. One of Kibble's most important pieces of work in this area was his study of the symmetry-breaking mechanism whereby the force-carrying vector particles in the theory can acquire a mass accompanied by the appearance of a massive scalar boson. This idea, put forward independently by Brout and Englert, by Higgs and by Guralnik, Hagen and Kibble in 1964, and generalised by Kibble in 1967, lies at the heart of the Standard Model and all modern unified theories of fundamental particles. It was vindicated in 2012 by the discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN. According to Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg, "Tom Kibble showed us why light is massless"; this is the fundamental basis of electromagnetism.
