Speaker
Alvaro De Rujula
(Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC) (ES))
Description
In a few years — right before and after the November Revolution of 1974 — particle physics, with full wind in its sails, changed very significantly. Quarks, somewhat reluctantly invented during the 1963/64 Christmas holidays, turned out to be for real. QCD and the rest of the Standard Model evolved from being considered a tropical disease affecting an overwhelmed minority of field theorists to being spoused by practically "everybody". I shall revisit, from the very personal point of view of a witness, the main theoretical and observational aspects of QCD in its infancy. I shall try to very briefly comment on the QCD progress made during the past half century, as well as the two main challenges still remaining.
Primary author
Alvaro De Rujula
(Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC) (ES))
