Supersymmetry and string theory : beyond the standard model / Michael Dine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dine, Michael, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Supersymmetry.

String models.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 482 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Summary:

This text is an introduction to the fields of experimental and theoretical particle physics and cosmology. The book focuses on three principal areas: supersymmetry, string theory, and astrophysics and cosmology. The chapters on supersymmetry introduce the basics of supersymmetry and its phenomenology, and cover dynamics, dynamical supersymmetry breaking, and electric-magnetic duality. The book then introduces general relativity and the big bang theory, and the basic issues in inflationary cosmologies. The section on string theory discusses the spectra of known string theories, and the features of their interactions. Material added in the second edition includes the pivotal Higgs discovery and the results of the WMAP and Planck experiments. This book will be of great interest to graduates and researchers in the fields of particle theory, string theory, astrophysics, and cosmology. It has been reissued as an Open Access publication on Cambridge Core.

Contents:

Before the standard model

The standard model

Phenomenology of the standard model

The standard model as an effective field theory

Anomalies, instantons and the strong CP problem

Grand unification

Magnetic monopoles and solitons

Technicolor: a first attempt to explain hierarchies

Supersymmetry

A first look at supersymmetry breaking

The minimal supersymmetric standard model

Supersymmetric grand unification

Supersymmetric dynamics

Dynamical supersymmetry breaking

Theories with more than four conserved supercharges

More supersymmetric dynamics

An introduction to general relativity

Cosmology

Astroparticle physics and inflation

String theory

The bosonic string

The superstring

The heterotic string

Effective actions in ten dimensions

Compactification of string theory I: Tri and orbifolds

Compactification of string theory II: Calabi-Yau compactifications

Dynamics of string theory at weak coupling

Beyond weak coupling: non-perturbative string theory

Large and warped extra dimensions

The landscape: a challenge to the naturalness principle

Coda: where are we headed?.

Notes:

Reissued as Open Access in 2022. Originally published in 2016.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Nov 2022).

ISBN:

9781009290883

1009290886

Access Restriction:

Open Access. Unrestricted online access