A pedagogical introduction is given to attempts to formulate a more fundamental theory of elementary particles than that provided by the standard model. After a review of the basic elements of the standard model, its unsatisfactory features, and ideas to modify them will be discussed. An introduction to Technicolour, t-quark condensates, supersymmetric models, GUT's and a brief comment on compo...

This note is an account of some developments in an effort to find a description of the present stock of elementary particles within the framework of the theory of quantized fields’. The theory of fields suggests that the spin values of $5 for F(ermi)-D(irac) fields, and of 0 and 1 for B(ose)-E(instein) fields are not only exceptional in their simplicity but. are likely to be unique in the possi...

In the context of the fact that the existence of dark energy causing the accelerated expansion of the universe has been confirmed by the WMAP and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we reexamine gravitation itself, starting with the formulation of Sakharov and show that it is possible to obtain gravitation in terms of the electromagnetic charge of elementary particles, once the ZPF and its effects at...

The QCD sector of the system SANC is presented. QCD theoretical predictions for several processes of high energy interactions of fundamental particles at the one-loop precision level for up to some 3and 4-particle processes are implemented.

The recent apparent observation [1, 2] of the Higgs boson [3, 4, 5, 6] has led to much interest in the popular claim that the Higgs boson (or better, the Higgs field) “gives mass” to those elementary particles that have it. Discuss how the de Broglie relations [7] for “matter waves” lead to a wave equation with a term that depends on mass, and that interpretation of this term as due to the inte...

The standard model of the early universe is extraordinarily simple: it just assumes a globally isotropic and uniform universe. In the simplest version there is no structure of any kind on scales larger than individual elementary particles; indeed the contents are determined by “just physics”— global expansion governed by relativity, particle interactions governed by the Standard Model, and dist...

In these lectures I give a short review of the main theoretical ideas underlying the extensions of the Standard Model of elementary particle interactions.

In this article we have summarized the status of the system SANC version 0.41. We have implemented theoretical predictions for many high energy interactions of fundamental particles at the one-loop precision level for up to 4-particle processes. In the present part of our SANC description we place emphasis on an extensive discussion of an important first step of calculations of the one-loop amp...

As explained in the official problem description set out by Arthur Jaffe and Edward Witten, Yang-Mills theory is a generalization of Maxwell’s theory of electromagnetism, in which the basic dynamical variable is a connection on a G-bundle over four-dimensional space-time. Its quantum version is the key ingredient in the Standard Model of the elementary particles and their interactions, and a so...