String theory and the real world : the visible sector / Gordon Kane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kane, G. L., author.

Contributor:

EBSCOhost.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

String models.

Superstring theories.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (some color)

polychrome

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

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

System Details:

text file

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.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

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

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Print version:

ISBN:

9780750335836

0750335831

9780750335829

0750335823

Publisher Number:

99989449386

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