Yang-Mills Theories at High-Energy Accelerators

Abstract

I'll begin with a brief review of the triumph of Yang-Mills theory at particle accelerators, a development that began some years after their historic paper. This story reached a culmination, or at least local extremum, with the discovery at the Large Hadron Collider of a Higgs-like scalar boson in 2012. The talk then proceeds to a slightly more technical level, discussing how we derive predictions from the gauge field theories of the Standard Model and its extensions for use at high energy accelerators.

Comments: 24 pages, 12 figures. Based on a presentation at the Conference on Sixty Years of Yang-Mills Gauge Theories, Institute of Advanced Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 25-28 May, 2015