String theory and the real world /

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 compreh...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kane, G. L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2017]
Colección:IOP (Series). Release 3.
IOP concise physics.
Temas:
String models.
Particle & high-energy physics.
Cosmology & the universe.
Condensed matter physics (liquid state & solid state physics)
SCIENCE / Cosmology.
SCIENCE / Energy.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction : the Standard Models
  • 2. The Planck scale--compactification
  • 3. Testing theories in physics, including string theories
  • 3.1. Kaluza-Klein theories, anomalies, and the physics of extra dimensions
  • 4. The mass-energy scales of particle physics and cosmology--the 'hierarchy' problem--supersymmetry--hidden sectors
  • 4.1. Unification of forces--the QCD scale and the proton mass
  • 4.2. If we did not know about protons, QCD would make us think of them
  • 4.3. Theories versus solutions--a major confusion--spontaneous symmetry breaking
  • 4.4. Hidden sectors
  • 5. The scales we need to explain
  • 5.1. Higgs physics--electroweak symmetry breaking--the supersymmetry Higgs sector
  • 5.2. The [mu] 'problem'
  • 5.3. Overview of scales
  • 6. How would we decide we had a good theory to describe and explain our world?
  • 6.1. Compactified M-theory on a G2 manifold : early results
  • 6.2. Compactified M-theory : superpotential, phenomenological theory
  • 6.3. The main results and predictions for M-theory so far and in progress
  • 6.4. Summary : the Higgs physics
  • 6.5. Summary : where are the superpartners?
  • 7. Brief topics : views from our perspective
  • 7.1. Dark matter : what is it, what is its connection to string theory, and how can we study it?
  • 7.2. Axions
  • 7.3. Moduli : stabilization and cosmological history
  • 7.4. Matter asymmetry
  • 7.5. The Standard Model : quark and lepton masses, one heavy quark, MDOWN--MUP
  • 7.6. The cosmological constant
  • 7.7. Generic
  • 7.8. No adjustable parameters? No flexibility. What if ...?
  • 7.9. A final theory?
  • 8. Perspectives.

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