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Supersymmetry and string theory : beyond the standard model /
This is a comprehensive introduction to the recent developments in theoretical physics, covering supersymmetry, string theory, and astrophysics and cosmology. This will be of interest to graduates and researchers in the fields of particle theory, string theory, astrophysics and cosmology. The book c...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.