Yang-Mills and Beyond
History and Philosophy of Physics
2012-10-04 v2
Abstract
In their 1954 paper, Yang and Mills invented the non-Abelian field strength to satisfy certain criteria but didn't explain how it could be derived. In the penultimate section we show how the Yang-Mills field strength derives from Yang's gauge transformation. The preceding sections place Yang-Mills theory in historical perspective and cover material relating to the field strength. The final section shows how Yang-Mills theory was combined with spontaneous symmetry breaking, the Goldstone theorem and subsequent work to contribute to the Standard Model of particle physics.
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@article{arxiv.1111.1247,
title = {Yang-Mills and Beyond},
author = {Samuel Marateck},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.1247},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
It has been reworked