Gauge Theories In The Twentieth Century
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Gauge Theory
High Energy Physics
Mathematical Physics
Quantum Theory
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- ISBN 9781860942815
- Publication Date: 22 Oct 2001
- Publisher: Imperial College Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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By the end of the 1970s, it was clear that all the known forces of nature (including, in a sense, gravity) were examples of gauge theories, characterized by invariance under symmetry transformations chosen independently at each position and each time. These ideas culminated with the finding of the W and Z gauge bosons (and perhaps also the Higgs boson). This important book brings together the key papers in the history of gauge theories, including the discoveries of: the role of gauge transformations in the quantum theory of electrically charged particles in the 1920s; nonabelian gauge groups in the 1950s; vacuum symmetry-breaking in the 1960s; asymptotic freedom in the 1970s. A short introduction explains the significance of the papers, and the connections between them.
