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- 1964
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- 12
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- 2
- Pages
- 132-133
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Peter W. Higgs
(1964).
Broken symmetries, massless particles and gauge fields.
Physics Letters
, 12
(2)
, 132-133.
https://doi.org/10.1016/0031-9163(64)91136-9
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- 10.1016/0031-9163(64)91136-9