Yang–Mills theory
Physical theory unifying the electromagnetic, weak and strong interactions / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Yang–Mills theory and the mass gap. Quantum particles described by the theory have mass but the classical waves of the field travel at the speed of light.[1]
The phrase Yang–Mills theory means both a quantum field theory for nuclear binding devised by Chen Ning Yang and Robert Mills in 1953 and the class of similar theories. In mathematical physics, Yang–Mills theory is a gauge theory based on a special unitary group SU(n), or more generally any compact Lie group. A Yang–Mills theory seeks to describe the behavior of elementary particles using these non-abelian Lie groups and is at the core of the unification of the electromagnetic force and weak forces (i.e. U(1) × SU(2)) as well as quantum chromodynamics, the theory of the strong force (based on SU(3)). Thus it forms the basis of our understanding of the Standard Model of particle physics.