Quantum Field Theory and the Electroweak Standard Model

TL;DR

This paper provides an overview of the electroweak sector of the Standard Model, discussing its quantum field theory foundations and demonstrating its success in explaining experimental results from colliders.

Contribution

It offers a concise introduction to the electroweak Standard Model and discusses the quantization of gauge theories, emphasizing its experimental validation.

Findings

Electroweak Standard Model accurately describes collider data

Discussion of quantization methods for gauge theories

Validation of the Standard Model's predictions with experiments

Abstract

The Standard Model is one of the main intellectual achievements for about the last 50 years, a result of many theoretical and experimental studies. In this lecture a brief introduction to the electroweak part of the Standard Model is given. Since the Standard Model is a quantum field theory, some aspects for understanding of quantization of abelian and non-abelian gauge theories are also briefly discussed. It is demonstrated how well the electroweak Standard Model works in describing a large variety of precise experimental measure- ments at lepton and hadron colliders.