String Theory and the Real World : The Visible Sector / Gordon Kane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kane, G. L., author.

Contributor:

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

IOP expanding physics.

IOP Ebooks Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Particle & high-energy physics.

Particle and nuclear physics.

String models.

Superstring theories.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2021]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.

Biography/History:

Gordon Kane is the Victor Weisskopf Distinguished University Professor at the University of Michigan and Director Emeritus at the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics (MCTP, now Leinweber Center), a leading center for the advancement of theoretical physics. He was director of the MCTP from 2005-2011 and Victor Weisskopf Collegiate Professor of Physics from 2002-2011. He received the Lilienfeld Prize from the American Physical Society in 2012, and the J J Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics in 2017. Kane is an internationally recognized scientific leader in theoretical and phenomenological particle physics, and theories for physics beyond the Standard Model. In recent years he has been a leader in string phenomenology. Kane has been with the University of Michigan since 1965.

Summary:

This book attempts to explain why string theory may provide the comprehensive underlying theory that describes and explains our world. It is an enthusiastic view of how compactified string/M-theories, plus data that may be reachable, seem to have the possibilities of leading to a comprehensive underlying theory of particle physics and cosmology, perhaps soon. We are living in a hugely exciting era for science, one during which it may be possible to achieve a real and true understanding of our physical world. Founded on three decades of research, this second edition covers the Planck scale, Higgs physics, supersymmetry and supersymmetry breaking, the Hierarchy problem, dark matter, inflation, hidden sectors, future colliders, testing theories in physics, possible limits to understanding, and more.

Contents:

part I. What we probably know. 1. The Standard Models

overview and perspective

1.1. The large number of solutions to string/M-theory is not an obstacle to finding a theory that describes nature

1.2. String theorists study theories, not phenomena

1.3. Nutcracker

1.4. Why the Standard Model is true

it will be extended but not replaced in its domain

1.5. Experimental confirmations of the Standard Model

1.6. Theoretical evidence for the Standard Model

1.7. In recent decades the boundaries of the goals of physics have changed

2. The Planck scale

compactification

extra dimensions

3. Higgs physics: the hierarchy problem

4. Supersymmetry

4.1. Supersymmetry as a space-time symmetry

superspace

4.2. Hidden or 'broken' supersymmetry

5. Compactification

5.1. It's astonishing that a mathematical physics argument has pushed us to think we live in a world with nine or ten space dimensions

5.2. String theorists study theories, not phenomena

6. The visible sector

6.1. The final theory list

7. Anthropic questions and string theory

8. The scales we need to explain

8.1. Higgs physics

electroweak symmetry breaking

the supersymmetry Higgs sector

8.2. Gravitino and heavy superpartners

9. Testing theories in physics, including string theories

10. Dark matter candidates

part II. Explaining and interpreting recent compactified M-theory results. 11. Moduli

12. Hidden sectors

13. Inflation

14. The matter asymmetry

15. Possible tests soon

16. Future colliders?

17. Three families, quark mass hierarchies and splittings

18. How much can we understand?

Notes:

"Version: 20210207"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on August 5, 2021).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780750335829

0750335823

9780750335836

0750335831

OCLC:

1262946076