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Yang-Mills Theories with Global and Local Supersymmetry — Higgs and Superhiggs Effect in Unified Field Theories

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The phenomenological success of the Glashow-Weinberg-Salam1 model in describing electromagnetic and weak interactions in a unified fashion and in embedding the Fermi theory of weak interactions in a renormalizable field theory has dramatically reproposed unified field theories as the correct theoretical framework for describing all elementary particle interactions.

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Ferrara, S. (1984). Yang-Mills Theories with Global and Local Supersymmetry — Higgs and Superhiggs Effect in Unified Field Theories. In: Castaños, O., Frank, A., Urrutia, L. (eds) Introduction to Supersymmetry in Particle and Nuclear Physics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0917-9_4

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