String theory and the real world : the visible sector /

This book attempts to explain why string theory may provide the comprehensive underlying theory that describes and explains our world. It is an enthusiastic view of how compactified string/M-theories, plus data that may be reachable, seem to have the possibilities of leading to a comprehensive under...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kane, G. L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2021]
Edición:Second edition.
Colección:IOP (Series). Release 21.
IOP ebooks. 2021 collection.
Temas:
String models.
Superstring theories.
Particle & high-energy physics.
Particle and nuclear physics.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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?

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