2014/12/12 by Tom Kibble, Tom W. B. Kibble, Kibble, Tom W. B.
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1412.4094
Text of an invited talk at 25 Anniversary Meeting of Academia Europaea, September 2013. 7 pp. To be published in European Journal
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This is a historical account from my personal perspective of the development over the last few decades of the standard model of particle physics. The model is based on gauge theories, of which the first was quantum electrodynamics, describing the interactions of electrons with light. This was later incorporated into the electroweak theory, describing electromagnetic and weak nuclear interactions. The standard model also includes quantum chromodynamics, the theory of the strong nuclear interactions. The final capstone of the model was the Higgs particle discovered in 2012 at CERN. But the model is very far from being the last word; there are still many gaps in our understanding.