Yang-Mills Theories at High-Energy Accelerators

TL;DR

This paper reviews the development and experimental validation of Yang-Mills theories at high-energy accelerators, highlighting the discovery of the Higgs-like boson and the derivation of predictions for collider experiments.

Contribution

It provides a historical overview and discusses how predictions from gauge field theories are derived and tested at high-energy colliders.

Findings

Discovery of a Higgs-like scalar boson at LHC

Validation of Yang-Mills theories through collider experiments

Derivation of predictions for Standard Model extensions

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.