Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I The road to unification
- Part II Field theories with global or local symmetries
- 4 Yang–Mills theories
- 5 Spontaneous breaking of symmetries
- 6 Construction of the model
- 7 The Higgs mechanism in the Glashow–Salam–Weinberg model
- 8 The leptonic sector
- 9 Incorporating hadrons
- Part III Experimental consequences and comparisons
- Epilogue
- Appendix A Conventions, spinors, and currents
- Appendix B Cross sections and traces
- Appendix C Identities for quark bilinears
- Index
4 - Yang–Mills theories
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I The road to unification
- Part II Field theories with global or local symmetries
- 4 Yang–Mills theories
- 5 Spontaneous breaking of symmetries
- 6 Construction of the model
- 7 The Higgs mechanism in the Glashow–Salam–Weinberg model
- 8 The leptonic sector
- 9 Incorporating hadrons
- Part III Experimental consequences and comparisons
- Epilogue
- Appendix A Conventions, spinors, and currents
- Appendix B Cross sections and traces
- Appendix C Identities for quark bilinears
- Index
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- Electroweak Theory , pp. 33 - 40Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007