The Standard Model Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Howard Georgi

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The Standard Model Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Howard Georgi

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Submitted: 5 Apr 2025 | Revised: 13 Jun 2025 | Accepted: 19 Jun 2025 | Published: 30 Jun 2025

Abstract

The 1970s was the decade of the Standard Model! This decade which began with quantum field theory in disarray ended with a practical set of QFT tools for calcu- lations for strong interactions at high and low energies and for electroweak interactions at all energies. After briefly remembering how we got there, I celebrate the remarkable achievements of particle physics in the 1970s and comment on where we go from here.

Keywords

Standard Mode | Massive Yang-Mills Fields | Renormalizable Lagrangians

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