World Scientific, 1981. - 450 pp.
A volume of selected original papers on the synthesis of the two fundamental forces of nature. It is intended to provide graduate students and physicists in the field with an easy access to the original literature.
Readership: High energy physicists.
1979 Nobel LecturesS. Weinberg, "Conceptual foundations of the unified theory of weak and electromagnetic interactions".
A. Salam, "Gauge unification of fundamental forces".
S. L. Glashow, "Towards a unified theory: Threads in a tapestry".
Yang-Mills Field and Early Attempts to Unify Weak and Electromagnetic InteractionsC. N. Yang and R. L. Mills, Phys. Rev. 96, 191 (1954), "Conservation of isotopic spin and isotopic gauge invariance".
J. Schwinger, Ann Phys. (N.Y.) 2, 407 (1957) "A theory of the fundamental interactions".
A. Salam and J. C. Ward, Nuovo Cimento 19, 165 (1961), "On a gauge theory of elementary interactions".
S. L. Glashow and M. Gell-Mann, Ann Phys. (N.Y.) 15, 437 (1961), "Gauge theories and vector particles".
Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Goldstone's TheoremJ. Goldstone, Nuovo Cimento 19, 154 (1961), "Field theories with superconductor solutions".
Y. Nambu and G. Jona-Lasinio, Phys. Rev. 122, 345 (1961), "Dynamical model of elementary particles based on an analogy with superconductivity".
J. Goldstone, A. Salam and S. Weinberg, Phys. Rev. 127, 965 (1962), "Broken symmetries".
Spontaneous Breaking of Local Gauge Symmetries and Higgs MechanismP. W. Higgs, Phys. Lett. 12, 132 (1964), "Broken symmetries, massless particles and gauge fields".
F. Englert and R. Brout, Phys. Rev. Lett. 13, 321 (1964), "Broken symmetry and the mass of gauge vector bosons".
G. S. Guralnik, C. R. Hagen and T. W. B. Kibble, Phys. Rev. Lett. 13, 585 (1964), "Global conservation laws and massless particles".
P. W. Higgs, Phys. Rev. 145, 1156 (1966), "Spontaneous symmetry breakdown without massless bosons".
S. Weinberg, Phys. Rev. D7, 1068 (1973) "General theory of broken local symmetries".
J. S. Bell, Nucl. Phys. B60, 427 (1973), "High-energy behavior of tree diagrams in gauge-theories".
C. H. Llewellyn Smith, Phys. Lett. 46B, 233 (1973), "High energy behavior and gauge symmetry".
The Standard ModelS. L. Glashow, Nucl. Phys. 22,579 (1961), "Partial-Symmetries of weak interactions".
A. Salam and J. C. Ward, Phys. Lett. 13, 168 (1964), "Electromagnetic and weak interactions".
S. Weinberg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 19, 1264 (1967), "A model of leptons".
A. Salam, in "Elementary Particle Theory", ed. N. Svartholm (Almqvist and Wiksell, Stockholm, 1968), "Weak and electromagnetic interactions".
S. Weinberg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 27, 1688 (1971), "Physical processes in a convergent theory of the weak and electromagnetic interactions".
S. L. Glashow, J. Iliopoulos and L. Maiani, Phys. Rev. D2, 1285 (1970), "Weak interactions with lepton-hadron symmetry".
Quantization of Gauge Fields, Feynman RulesL. D. Faddeev and V. N. Popov, Phys. Lett. 25B, 29 (1967), "Feynman diagrams for the Yang-Mills field".
V. N. Popov and L. D. Faddeev, Kiev Report No. ITP-67-36 (1967); English translation by D. Gordon and B. W. Lee, NAL-THY-57 (1972), "Perturbation theory for gauge invariant fields".
K. Fujikawa, B. W. Lee and A. I. Sanda, Phys. Rev. D6, 2923 (1972), "Generalized renormalizable gauge formulation of spontaneously broken gauge theories".
J. C. Taylor, Nucl. Phys. B33, 436 (1971), "Ward identities and charge renorrnalization of the Yang-Mills field."
A. A. Slavnov, Theo. Math. Phys. 10, 99 (1972), "Ward identities in gauge theories".
Renormalization of Gauge TheoriesG. 't Hooft, Nucl. Phys. B33, 173 (1971), "Renormalization of massless Yang-Mills fields".
G. 't Hooft, Nucl. Phys. B3S, 167 (1971), "Renorrnalizable Lagrangians for massive Yang-Mills fields".
G. 't Hooft and M. Veltman, Nucl. Phys. B44, 189 (1972), "Regularization and renormalization of gauge fields."
B. W. Lee and J. Zinn-Justin, Phys. Rev. D5, 3121 (1972), "Spontaneously broken gauge symmetries. I. Preliminaries".
B. W. Lee and J. Zinn-Justin, Phys. Rev. D5, 3137 (1972), "Spontaneously broken gauge symmetries. II. Perturbation theory and renormalization".
B. W. Lee and J. Zinn-Justin, Phys. Rev. D5, 3155 (1972), "Spontaneously broken gauge symmetries. III. Equivalence".
B. W. Lee and J. Zinn-Justin, Phys. Rev. D7, 1049 (1973), "Spontaneously broken gauge symmetries. IV. General gauge formulation".
D. A. Ross and J. C. Taylor, Nucl. Phys. B51, 125 (1973), "RenormaIization of a unified theory of weak and electromagnetic interactions".
C. Becchi, A. Rouet and R. Stora, Ann. Phys. (N.Y.) 98, 287 (1976), "Renormalization of gauge theories".