60 Years of Yang-Mills Gauge Field Theories: C N Yang's Contributions to Physics

摘要

Since their first formulation, and following development that took place between the end of the 1950s and the beginning of the 1970s, Yang-Mills gauge field theories have proven to be the cornerstone of theoretical physics. Up to now, they represent the only relativistic quantum many-body corpus of theories in four space-time dimensions that appear to be fully consistent. The Yang-Mills theories for the strong, weak and electromagnetic forces are the framework of the Standard Model of particle physics, which has been proven to be the correct theory at the energies that we can measure.