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Buridan’s donkey between two piles of hay, faced with the dilemma if it should walk to the left or to the right in order to eat. Taking a decision corresponds to the process of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking.
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We sketch in simple terms the concept of the Higgs mechanism, and its
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