lunedi' 8 Novembre ore 16:00 (aula Caldirola)

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Speaker: MARIO NOVELLO Instituto de Cosmologia Relatividade e Astrofisica (ICRA, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil), CBPF (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas 
Fisicas, Rio),and ICRANet (Pescara, Italia)

Titolo: MACH OR HIGGS? THE MECHANISM TO GENERATE MASS

Abstract: The purpose of this seminar is to show that the gravitational interaction is able to generate mass for all bodies.  The condition for 
this to happen is the existence of an overall energy distribution, represented by the vacuum itself or the cosmological term. We review briefly 
the alternative Higgs mechanism, in order to compare both processes.