Goldstone boson
Bosón de Goldstone
- Date
- 1960 · confidence high
- Place
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Credited to
- Yoichiro Nambu
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
A massless boson that necessarily appears when a continuous symmetry is spontaneously broken; identified by Yoichiro Nambu by applying the BCS superconductivity mechanism to particle physics, and later formalized by Jeffrey Goldstone.
What it led to
- Formulation of the Higgs mechanism
- Theoretical prediction of the Higgs boson
- The Standard Model of particle physics