Supersymmetry and String Theory: Beyond the Standard Model

by Michael Dine

• ISBN13: 9780521858410
• ISBN10: 0521858410
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-01-15
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The past decade has witnessed dramatic developments in the field of theoretical physics. This book is a comprehensive introduction to these recent developments. It contains a review of the Standard Model, covering non-perturbative topics, and a discussion of grand unified theories and magnetic monopoles. It introduces the basics of supersymmetry and its phenomenology, and includes dynamics, dynamical supersymmetry breaking, and electric-magnetic duality. The book then covers general relativity and the big bang theory, and the basic issues in inflationary cosmologies before discussing the spectra of known string theories and the features of their interactions. The book also includes brief introductions to technicolor, large extra dimensions, and the Randall-Sundrum theory of warped spaces. This 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/9780521858410.

Table of Contents

Effective Field Theory: The Standard Model, Supersymmetry, Unification

Before the Standard Model

The Standard Model

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

Supersymmetry

A first look at supersymmetry breaking

The minimal supersymmetry Standard Model

Supersymmetric grand unification

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

Introduction

The Bosonic string

The superstring

The heterotic string

Effective actions on ten dimensions

Compactification of string theory

Compactification of strings

Dynamics of strong theory at weak coupling

Beyond weak coupling: non-perturbative string theory

Large and warped extra dimensions

Coda: where are we headed?

The Appendices

Two component spinors

Goldstone's theorem and the pi mesons

Some practice with the path integral in field theory

The beta-function in supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory

Index

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