何为希格斯玻色子的本体论地位？--关于一个未了结方案(恩格勒-布绕特-希格斯机制)的评注(英文)  

What is the Ontological Status of the Higgs Boson:Notes on the Englert-Brout-Higgs Mechanism as an Unfinished Project

作　　者：曹天予[1] 沈健(译)[2] 桂起权(校)[3] 

机构地区：[1]波士顿大学哲学系,美国马萨诸塞州波士顿市02215 [2]嘉应学院科技与社会发展研究所 [3]武汉大学哲学学院

出　　处：《自然辩证法通讯》2017年第1期49-57,共9页Journal of Dialectics of Nature

摘　　要：恩格勒—布绕特—希格斯机制究竟在何种程度上被观察所确认了呢?在何种意义上,该机制有助于我们去理解质量的产生呢?要解答这些问题,关键取决于对"机制究竟意味了什么"的理解。本文通过对这一机制的起源历史进行考究,澄清了其所涉及的概念基础。基于此,带质量的玻色子和恩格勒-布绕特-希格斯机制自身的本体论地位(是实在论的,还是工具主义的)通过考究其基础的真正地位而得以分析和讨论。通过这种分析,恰当地获得了一个结论,即面对两个疑惑(戈德斯通模的动力学恒等变换和重组物理自由度上的不变性),恩格勒—布绕特—希格斯机制和希格斯玻色子的本体论地位仍然是不确定的。Pending the resolution of the coupling-transmutation mystery and the dissolution of the fixity in reorganizing the fields, the uncertain status of the Englert-Brout-Higgs（EBH） mechanism- a physical reality in the subatomic realm or an ad hoc fictitious mental device-- has not been even slightly changed by the observation of the Higgs boson. Moreover, this uncertainty also has implications for the understanding of the origin of the mass of subatomic particles. In order to justify the claim that the EBH mechanism contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass, the mechanism itself has to be shown to be real. But this is yet to be done. For this reason, the EBH mechanism can only be taken as an unfinished project.

关 键 词：希格斯玻色子 恩格勒—布绕特—希格斯机制 本体论地位 不确定 

分 类 号：N0[自然科学总论—科学技术哲学]