Supersymmetry and String Theory
Cambridge University Press
Edition: 2, 10/31/2015
EAN 9781107048386, ISBN10: 1107048389
Hardcover, 608 pages, 25.3 x 19.5 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
The past decade has witnessed dramatic developments in the fields of experimental and theoretical particle physics and cosmology. This fully updated second edition is a comprehensive introduction to these recent developments and brings this self-contained textbook right up to date. Brand new material for this edition includes the groundbreaking Higgs discovery, results of the WMAP and Planck experiments. Extensive discussion of theories of dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking and a new chapter on the landscape, as well as a completely rewritten coda on future directions gives readers a modern perspective on this developing field. A focus on three principle areas: supersymmetry, string theory, and astrophysics and cosmology provide the structure for this book which will be of great interest to graduates and researchers in the fields of particle theory, string theory, astrophysics and cosmology. The book contains several problems, and password-protected solutions will be available to lecturers at www.cambridge.org/9781107048386.
Preface to the first edition
Preface to the second edition
A note on choice of metric
Text website
Part I. Effective Field Theory
The Standard Model, Supersymmetry, Unification
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
Part II. Supersymmetry
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
Part III. String Theory
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. The landscape
a challenge to the naturalness principle
31. Coda
where are we headed?
Part IV. The Appendices
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
References
Index.