50 years of Yang-Mills theory.QC174 2005-043322 981-256-007-6 50 years of Yang-Mills theory. Title main entry. Ed. by Gerardus 't Hooft Gerardus ("Gerard") 't Hooft (IPA: xeːrɑrt ət hoːft]) (born July 5 1946, Den Helder) is a professor in theoretical physics at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. . World Scientific, [c]2005 487 p. $34.00 (pa) Gauge invariance theory and the development of ideas from it over the past half century are explored by US physicists in 19 papers, a few of which have been published elsewhere. Among the areas they consider are breaking the symmetry, towards the standard model, renormalization Renormalization A program in quantum field theory consisting of a set of rules for calculating S-matrix amplitudes which are free of ultraviolet (or short-distance) divergences, order by order in perturbative calculations in an expansion with respect to , asymptotic freedom, quark confinement and strings, the lattice, confrontation with experiments, and supersymmetry Supersymmetry A conjectured enhanced symmetry of the laws of nature that would relate two fundamental observed classes of particles, bosons and fermions. and supergravity Supergravity A theory that attempts to unify gravitation with the other fundamental interactions. The first, and only, completely successful unified theory was constructed by James Clerk Maxwell, in which the up-to-then unrelated electric and magnetic . There is no index. |
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