" As an important component of culture, a conception of the physical world involves a model
of the constitution and workings of nature, and includes assumptions about the mechanisms …

Following the experimental discovery of the Higgs boson, physicists explained the discovery
to the public by appealing to analogies with condensed matter physics. The historical root of …

The paper studies the topography of the model landscape of the physics in the Higgs sector
both within the Standard Model of Elementary Particle Physics (SM) and beyond (BSM) in …

The Higgs mechanism is very powerful: it furnishes a description of the electroweak theory in
the Standard Model which has a convincing experimental verification. But although the …

I give a response to Adrian Wüthrich's critical review of my analysis of the Higgs mechanism,
in which I try to clarify some possible misunderstandings. I concede that, as Wüthrich points …

This paper provides a still preliminary picture of the model landscape of the Higgs sector
both within the Standard Model of Elementary Particle Physics (SM) and beyond (BSM). If …

This paper argues that there is no single universal conception of scientific explanation that is
consistently employed throughout the whole domain of Higgs physics—ranging from the …

I discuss Earman's program to achieve an objective account of the Higgs mechanism within
the C∗ algebraic approach to quantum field theory. Pointing to three results obtained within …

The Higgs mechanism is invoked to explain how gauge bosons can be massive while Yang-
Mills theory describes only massless gauge fields. Central to it is the notion of spontaneous …

Symmetry breaking is ubiquitous in almost all areas of physics. It is a feature of everyday
phenomena as well as in more specific contexts within physics when considering …