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The standard model can be considered as a first step towards a unified treatment of the different interactions of the elementary particles: A kind of unification is achieved for the electromagnetic and weak interactions [Weinberg 1967; Salam 1968], whereas the strong as well as the electroweak interactions are formulated as gauge theories.
“... the best reason for believing in a renormalizable gauge theory of the weak and electromagnetic interactions is that it fits our preconceptions of what a fundamental field theory should be like.”
S. Weinberg (1974)
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Börner, G. (1992). Gauge Theories and the Standard Model. In: The Early Universe. Texts and Monographs in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02734-9_5
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