bj’s Fermilab Years
An evocation of J. D. Bjorken's decade at Fermilab, prepared for the SLAC Symposium, "Remembering Bj," November 9, 2024.
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The Night Before Charmonium
Lecture presented at the 2024 SLAC Summer Institute commemoration, \emph{November Revolution.}
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From Inspirations to Futures!
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Peter Higgs (1929–2024)
Peter Ware Higgs, a particle physics icon, died on 8 April at the age of 94. Higgs illuminated the path to understanding how exact symmetries obeyed by the laws of nature might be masked by an asymmetric ground state that is an outcome of symmetrical laws. In 1964, he posited that a field filling all of space could be the agent that hides the underlying symmetries of the fundamental interactions. Additionally, when excited, the field reveals itself as a massive unstable particle. In the context of a joint theory of electromagnetism and the weak interaction, that particle—popularly called the Higgs boson—emerged as the keystone of the standard model of particle physics. The decades-long search for the boson engaged the passion of thousands of scientists and engineers and stirred the curiosity of the public the world over.
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