A volume of selected original papers on the synthesis of the two fundamental forces of nature. It is intended to provide graduate students and physicists in the field with an easy access to the original literature.
Contents:
- Yang-Mills Field and Early Attempts to Unify Weak and Electromagnetic Interactions
- Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Goldstone's Theorem
- Spontaneous Breaking of Local Gauge Symmetries and Higgs Mechanism
- The Standard Model
- Quantization of Gauge Fields, Feynman Rules
- Renormalization of Gauge Theories
Readership: High energy physicists.