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Left-Right Symmetric Models of Weak Interactions: A Review

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Quarks, Leptons, and Beyond

Part of the book series: NATO ASI Series ((NSSB,volume 122))

Abstract

The last ten years has seen a revolution of sorts in our understanding of the weak interaction phenomena. The four-fermion V-A theory suggested in 1957 by Sudarshan, Marshak, Feynman, Gell-Mann and Sakurai has provided an extremely successful description of observed low energy weak charged current processes. During the decade of the sixties, Glashow, Salam and Weinberg have shown that this theory emerges at low energies out of a renormalizable spontaneously broken gauge theory1 based on the gauge group SU(2)L, × U(1), which in addition, predicts new effects associated with weak neutral currents with definite internal spin structure.

Based on Lecture delivered at the NATO Summer School on Particle Physics, September 4–18: Munich, W. Germany

Work supported by National Science Foundation.

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