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This 1979 book examines gauge theories, which were first proposed in the context of weak interactions in 1976.
List of contents
Foreword; Preface; Notation and conventions; 1. Introduction; 2. Weak interactions and vector mesons; 3. Photons; 4. The Yang-Mills field; 5. Spontaneous breaking of symmetries; 6, Spontaneous breaking of local gauge symmetries; 7. Topology and symmetry-breaking; 8. Theory of leptons; 9. A provisional model of hadron weak interactions; 10. Feynman's path-integral formulation of quantum mechanics; 11. Quantization of gauge fields; 12. Ward-Takahashi identities; 13. Regularization and anomalies; 14. Renormalization of gauge theories; 15. Symmetry-breaking and mass-differences; 16. Higher-order corrections; 17. CP and T violation; 18. Gauge theories and strong interactions; Index.
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Summary
The development of gauge theories has provided the basis for a complete and consistent account of weak interactions - for example between neutrinos and matter - whilst displaying their unity with electromagnetism. This 1979 book examines gauge theories, which were first proposed in this context in 1976.
