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Standard Model of Elementary Particles

2022; Springer Nature; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-031-11862-3_2

2190-5061

Yann Gouttenoire,

Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

The Standard Model (SM) is the theory which describes at the quantum level three of the four fundamental forces—electromagnetism, weak interaction and strong interaction—and all the known elementary particles. It is currently the most rigorous theory of particle physics, with an unprecedented level of precision and accuracy in its predictions. It is the result of the collaborative work of the greatest physicists in the last century, whom at least seventy of them earned the Nobel prize, since the introduction of the photon by Einstein in 1905 [1] or the unification of Quantum Mechanics and Special Relativity by Dirac in 1928 [2, 3]. The SM has been theoretically achieved after three major breakthroughs in the end 60s/early 70s.