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Why do We Need Local Gauge Invariance in Theories with Vector Particles? An Introduction

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Recent Developments in Gauge Theories

Part of the book series: NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series ((NSSB,volume 59))

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During the last decennium it has become more and more clear that gauge theories play a decisive role in elementary particle physics. Indeed, the most general possible theory for a finite class of particle types, with not too strong interactions, and valid to very high energies, must be a gauge theory with some scalar and spinor fields.

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  • More details on the subject of this lecture can be found in: G. ’t Hooft and M. Veltman, “)IAGRAMMAR”, CERN report 73–9.

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Hooft, G. (1980). Why do We Need Local Gauge Invariance in Theories with Vector Particles? An Introduction. In: Hooft, G., et al. Recent Developments in Gauge Theories. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 59. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7571-5_7

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