Gauge Theories of Weak Interactions

This 1979 book examines gauge theories, which were first proposed in the context of weak interactions in 1976.

J. C. Taylor (Author)

9780521295185, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 22 February 1979

186 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.1 cm, 0.28 kg

The interaction between neutrinos and matter is an example of the type classified as weak, and such interactions also allow many elementary particle decays and the beta decay of the nuclei. The development of gauge theories has provided the basis for a complete and consistent account of weak interactions, at the same time displaying their unity with electromagnetism. Gauge theories in this context were first proposed in 1967. Rapid mathematical development took place from 1971, and on this book's publication in 1979, a moderate amount of empirical verification had been achieved.

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.

Subject Areas: Physics [PH]