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"Supersymmetry and String Theory will enable readers to develop models for new physics, and to consider their implications for accelerator experiments. This will be of great interest to graduates and researchers in the fields of particle theory, string theory, astrophysics, and cosmology."...

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Main Author: Dine, Michael
Corporate Author: Emma Louise McClellan Fund
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007
Cambridge ; New York : 2007
Cambridge : 2007
Subjects:
String models
Supersymmetry
Supergravitatie
Supersymmetrie
Table of Contents:
  • Effective field theory : the Standard Model, supersymmetry, unification
  • 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 Supersymmetry Standard Model
  • Supersymmetric grand unificiation
  • 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 peculiar history of string theory
  • The bosonic string
  • The superstring
  • The heterotic string
  • Effective actions in ten dimensions
  • Compactification of string theory I : Tori 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
  • Where are we headed?
  • Appendix A : two-component spinors
  • Appendix B : Goldstone's theorem and the pi mesons
  • Appendix C : some practice with the path integral in field theory
  • Appendix D : the beta function in supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory
  • 1 Before the standard model
  • 2. The standard model
  • 3. Phenomenology of the standard model
  • 4. The standard model as an effective field theory
  • 5. Anomalies, instantons and the strong CP problem
  • 6. Grand unification
  • 7. Magnetic monopoles and solitons
  • 8. Technicolor : a first attempt to explain hierarchies
  • 9. Supersymmetry
  • 10. A first look at supersymmetry breaking
  • 11. The minimal supersymmetric standard model
  • 12. Supersymmetric grand unification
  • 13. Supersymmetric dynamics
  • 14. Dynamical supersymmetry breaking
  • 15. Theories with more than four conserved supercharges
  • 16. More supersymmetric dynamics
  • 17. An introduction to general relativity
  • 18. Cosmology
  • 19. Astroparticle physics and inflation
  • 20. Introduction
  • 21. The bosonic string
  • 22. The superstring
  • 23. The heterotic string
  • 24. Effective actions in ten dimensions
  • 25. Compactification of string theory I. Tori and orbifolds
  • 26. Compactification of string theory II. Calabi-Yau compactifications
  • 27. Dynamics of string theory at weak coupling
  • 28. Beyond weak coupling : non-perturbative string theory
  • 29. Large and warped extra dimensions
  • 30. Coda : where are we headed?
  • App. A. Two-component spinors
  • App. B. Goldstone's theorem and the pi mesons
  • App. C. Some practice with the path integral in field theory
  • App. D. The beta function in supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory.

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