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  1. Brout Englert Higgs Mechanism

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    Key contributions leading to the mature theory include:
    Brout and Englert (1964): Initially formulated the concept within the context of weak interactions, demonstrating how the photon remained massless while the weak carriers gained mass.
    Higgs (1964): Independently derived the mechanism, crucially identifying the emergence of a massive scalar excitation—the physical Higgs boson—that arises from the broken symmetry.
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