A very nice historical review
Fifty years of Yang–Mills Theories: a phenomenological point of view
https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/0404215.pdf
abstract: On the occasion of the celebration of the first half-century of Yang–Mills theories, I am contributing a personal recollection of how the subject, in its early times, confronted physical reality, that is, its “phenomenology”. There is nothing original in this work, except, perhaps, my own points of view. But I hope that the older practitioners of the field will find here grounds for nostalgia, or good reasons to disagree with me. Younger addicts may learn that history does not resemble at all what is reflected in current textbooks: it was orders of magnitude more fascinating.
Deep Inelastic Scattering and Gauge/String Duality
https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0209211.pdf
Partons and Black Holes
https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/9410306.pdf
The Drell-Yan process
https://lib-extopc.kek.jp/preprints/PDF/1982/8208/8208150.pdf
Evidence of the gluon
https://lib-extopc.kek.jp/preprints/PDF/1981/8112/8112118.pdf
Experimental evidence on QCD
https://lib-extopc.kek.jp/preprints/PDF/1981/8104/8104332.pdf
Lepton pair production in hadronic collisions
https://lib-extopc.kek.jp/preprints/PDF/1981/8110/8110072.pdf
Deep inelastic structure functions
https://lib-extopc.kek.jp/preprints/PDF/1981/8102/8102075.pdf
Asymptotic freedom in deep inelastic process in leading-order and beyond
https://inspirehep.net/files/05b830f1b3bde5cdaeec793b022f11d5
QCD test and e+e- and pp colliders
https://lib-extopc.kek.jp/preprints/PDF/1988/8806/8806268.pdf
Invariant Theoretical Interpretation of Interaction
https://journals.aps.org/pr/pdf/10.1103/PhysRev.101.1597
Thermodynamic Stability Implies Causality
https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.010606
https://inspirehep.net/files/bc886fef653f85f063743fb8569153d6