60 Years Of Yang-mills Gauge Field Theories: C N Yang's Contributions To Physics

by Lars Brink, Kok Khoo Phua

Overview

During the last six decades, Yang-Mills theory has increasingly become the cornerstone of theoretical physics. It is seemingly the only fully consistent relativistic quantum many-body theory in four space-time dimensions. As such it is the underlying theoretical framework for the Standard Model of Particle Physics, which has been shown to be the correct theory at the energies we now can measure. It has been investigated also from many other perspectives, and many new and unexpected features have been uncovered from this theory. In recent decades, apart from high energy physics, the theory has been actively applied in other branches of physics, such as statistical physics, condensed matter physics, nonlinear systems, etc. This makes the theory an indispensable topic for all who are involved in physics.The conference celebrated the exceptional achievements using Yang-Mills theory over the years but also many other truly remarkable contributions to different branches of physics from Prof C N Yang. This volume collects the invaluable talks by Prof C N Yang and the invited speakers reviewing these remarkable contributions and their importance for the future of physics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789814725545
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	06/14/2016
Pages:	540
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 9.60(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

Preface v

Conference Photos ix

1 The Future of Physics - Revisited C N. Yang 1

2 Quantum Chromodynamics - The Perfect Yang-Mills Gauge Field Theory David Gross 11

3 Maximally Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory: The Story of N = 4 Yang-Mills Theory Lars Brink 25

4 The Lattice and Quantized Yang-Mills Theory Michael Creutz 41

5 Yang-Mills Theories at High Energy Accelerators George Sternum 53

6 Yang-Mills Theory at 60: Milestones, Landmarks and Interesting Questions Ling-Lie Chan 79

7 Discovery of the First Yang-Mills Gauge Particle - The Gluon Sau Lan Wu 111

8 Yang-Mills Gauge Theory and Higgs Particle Tai Tsun Wu San Lan Wu 139

9 Scenario for the Renormalization in the 4D Yang-Mills Theory L. D. Faddeev 161

10 Statistical Physics in the Oeuvre of Chen Ning Yang Michael E. Fisher 167

11 Quantum Vorticity in Nature Kerson Huang 199

12 Yang-Mills Theory and Fermionic Path Integrals Kazuo Fujikawa 217

13 Yang-Mills Gauge Theory and the Higgs Boson Family Ngee-Pong Chang 233

14 On the Physics of the Minimal Length: The Questions of Gauge Invariance Lay Nam Chang Djordje Minic Ahmed Roman Chen Sun Tatsu Takeuchi 245

15 Generalization of the Yang-Mills Theory G. Savvidy 269

16 Some Thoughts about Yang-Mills Theory A. Zee 301

17 Gauging Quantum Groups: Yang-Baxter Joining Yang-Mills Yong-Shi Wu 315

18 The Framed Standard Model (I) - A Physics Case for Framing the Yang-Mills Theory? Chan Hong-Mo Tsou Sheung Tsun 327

19 The Framed Standard Model (II) - A First Test Against Experiment Chan Hong-Mo Tsou Sheung Tsun 339

20 On the Study of the Higgs Properties at a Muon Collider Mario Greco 351

21 Aharonov-Bohm Types of Phases in Maxwell and Yang-Mills Field Theories Bruce H. J. McKellar 355

22 Yang-Mills for Historians and Philosophers R. P. Crease 377

23 Gauge Concepts in Theoretical Applied Physics Seng Ghee Tan Mansoor B. A. Jalil 387

24 Yang-Yang Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics: A Brilliant Method Xi-Wen Guan Yang-Yang Chen 399

25 Chern-Simons Theory, Vassiliev Invariants, Loop Quantum Gravity and Functional Integration Without Integration Louis H. Kauffman 415

26 The Scattering Equations and Their Off-Shell Extension York-Peng Yao 443

27 Feynman Geometries Sen Hu Audrey Losev 453

28 Particle Accelerator Development: Selected Examples Jie Wei 473

29 A New Storage-Ring Light Source Alex Chao 487

30 New Contributions to Physics by Prof. C. N. Yang: 2009-2011 Zhong-Qi Ma 499

31 Brief Overview of C. N. Yang's 13 Important Contributions to Physics Yu Shi 505