Colloquium

Symmetry and the Origin of Mass

Christopher T. Hill

Head of the Theoretical Physics Department
of Fermilab

Wednesday, September 20, 2006   4:00 p.m.  NSH 118

(Refreshments at 3:30 p.m. NSH 292)

 

The main goal of experimentally based particle physics in the present era is to understand the mechanism that generates the electron mass, which will also answer to the question: why are the weak forces weak? We show how this question intertwines with symmetry, and how mass is always associated with symmetry breaking.