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This article appears in the following collection:Letters from the Past - A PRL Retrospective2008 marked PRL's 50th anniversary. As part of the celebrations a collection of milestone Letters was started. The collection contains Letters that have made long-lived contributions to physics, either by announcing significant discoveries, or by initiating new areas of research.

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MilestoneGauge (firearms)MesonSymmetry (geometry)PhysicsParticle physicsGauge theoryTheoretical physicsHistoryArchaeologyMathematicsGeometry

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Year
1964
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article
Volume
13
Issue
9
Pages
321-323
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3739
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F. Englert, R. Brout (1964). Broken Symmetry and the Mass of Gauge Vector Mesons. Physical Review Letters , 13 (9) , 321-323. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.13.321

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10.1103/physrevlett.13.321