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  • Michael Dine, University of California, Santa Cruz
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
November 2022
Print publication year:
2023
Online ISBN:
9781009290883
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Book description

This text is an introduction to the fields of experimental and theoretical particle physics and cosmology. The book focuses on three principal areas: supersymmetry, string theory, and astrophysics and cosmology. The chapters on supersymmetry introduce the basics of supersymmetry and its phenomenology, and cover dynamics, dynamical supersymmetry breaking, and electric–magnetic duality. The book then introduces general relativity and the big bang theory, and the basic issues in inflationary cosmologies. The section on string theory discusses the spectra of known string theories, and the features of their interactions. Material added in the second edition includes the pivotal Higgs discovery and the results of the WMAP and Planck experiments. This book will be of great interest to graduates and researchers in the fields of particle theory, string theory, astrophysics, and cosmology. It has been reissued as an Open Access publication on Cambridge Core.

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Contents

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  • Frontmatter
    pp i-iv
  • Dedication
    pp v-vi
  • Contents
    pp vii-xiv
  • Preface to the First Edition
    pp xv-xvii
  • Preface to the Second Edition
    pp xviii-xix
  • A note on the choice of metric
    pp xx-xx
  • Text website
    pp xxi-xxii
  • Part 1 - Effective Field Theory: The Standard Model, Supersymmetry, Unification
    pp 1-2
  • 1 - Before the Standard Model
    pp 3-7
  • 2 - The Standard Model
    pp 8-26
  • 3 - Phenomenology of the Standard Model
    pp 27-62
  • 4 - The Standard Model as an effective field theory
    pp 63-75
  • 5 - Anomalies, instantons and the strong CP problem
    pp 76-105
  • 6 - Grand unification
    pp 106-115
  • 7 - Magneticmonopoles and solitons
    pp 116-125
  • 8 - Technicolor: a first attempt to explain hierarchies
    pp 126-132
  • Part 2 - Supersymmetry
    pp 133-134
  • 9 - Supersymmetry
    pp 135-150
  • 10 - A first look at supersymmetry breaking
    pp 151-159
  • 11 - The Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model
    pp 160-176
  • 12 - Supersymmetric grand unification
    pp 177-181
  • 13 - Supersymmetric dynamics
    pp 182-197
  • 14 - Dynamical supersymmetry breaking
    pp 198-210
  • 15 - Theories withmore than four conserved supercharges
    pp 211-221
  • 16 - More supersymmetric dynamics
    pp 222-230
  • 17 - An introduction to general relativity
    pp 231-244
  • 18 - Cosmology
    pp 245-253
  • 19 - Particle astrophysics and inflation
    pp 254-286
  • Part 3 - String Theory
    pp 287-288
  • 20 - Introduction
    pp 289-294

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