50 Years Of Yang-mills Theory

Buch | Softcover

500 Seiten

2005
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd (Verlag)
978-981-256-007-0 (ISBN)

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“It was a brilliant idea to signal the 50th birthday of Yang-Mills theory by gathering together a wide range of articles by leading experts on many aspects of the subject. The result is a most handsome tribute of both historical and current interest, and a substantial addition to the existing literature …This unusual and elegant festschrift is a treat for theorists.”CERN CourierOn the 50th anniversary of Yang-Mills theory, this invaluable volume looks back at the developments and achievements in elementary particle physics that ensued from that beautiful idea.During the last five decades, Yang-Mills theory, which is undeniably the most important cornerstone of theoretical physics, has expanded widely. It has been investigated from many perspectives, and many new and unexpected features have been uncovered from this theory. In recent decades, apart from high energy physics, the theory has been actively applied in other branches of physics, such as statistical physics, condensed matter physics, nonlinear systems, etc. This makes the theory an indispensable topic for all who are involved in physics.An international team of experts, each of whom has left his mark on the developments of this remarkable theory, contribute essays or more detailed technical accounts to this volume. These articles highlight the new discoveries from the respective authors' perspectives. The distinguished contributors are: S Adler, F A Bais, C Becchi, M Creutz, A De Rújula, B S DeWitt, F Englert, L D Faddeev, P Hasenfratz, R Jackiw, A Polyakov, V N Popov, R Stora, P van Baal, P van Nieuwenhuizen, S Weinberg, F Wilczek, E Witten, C N Yang. Included in each article are introductory and explanatory remarks by the editor, G 't Hooft, who is himself a major player in the development of Yang-Mills theory.

Quantizing Gauge Field Theories; Ghosts for Physicists; Breaking the Symmetry; Towards the Standard Model; Renormalization; Anomalies; Asymptotic Freedom; Magnetic Monopoles; Quark Confinement and Strings; Fixing in Gauge Condition Non-Perturbatively; The Lattice; Fermions on the Lattice; Confrontation with Experiment; Supersymmetry and Supergravity; Physics of the 21st Century

Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Quantenphysik
ISBN-10	981-256-007-6 / 9812560076
ISBN-13	978-981-256-007-0 / 9789812560070
Zustand	Neuware