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OverviewThere are a number of unanswered questions which indicate that the Standard Model, successful as it is, cannot be the entire story. One solution to answering these questions is that the Standard Model is an effective low-energy theory of structure hopefully nearby in its energy scale in much the same way that a model of strong interactions among nucleons mediated by pions is an effective theory for the strong interactions mediated by coloured gluons. This book reviews the Standard Model and then examines the current status of composite models. After developing criteria for judging such models the text discusses two of the major indicators of compositeness, triviality and naturalness. Using this framework as a background the various models are summarized and discussed. This monograph concludes with a chapter describing the constraints imposed on composite models by current methods of decay rates, magnetic moment measurements, flavour changing processes and so on, and describing other ways to look for signatures of compositeness. This monograph attempts to be thorough, covering all aspects of composite models, as found in the literature at the time of completion of the manuscript. As such it should be of interest to experimental or theoretical physicists having an interest in the subject. The review of the Standard model is written in such a way that anyone with a basic knowledge of quantum field theory should be able to understand the entire text. It could also be used for supplementary reading in graduate courses. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Calvin S Kalman (Concordia Univ, Canada) , I D' Souza (.)Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd ISBN: 9789810210199ISBN 10: 9810210191 Pages: 120 Publication Date: 01 October 1992 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsThe Standard Model; the leptonic sector; the quark sector; a brief note on masses; the Higgs mechanism / spontaneous symmetry breaking; the goldstone phenomena; the Higgs in the Standard Model; looking for alternatives to the Standard Model; grand unification theories (GUTS); criteria for judging a composite model; unsolved problems of the Standard Model; composite Higgs bosons; triviality; naturalness; technicolour; mass for the fermions; the composite Higgs model; quark and lepton substructure; the compositeness scale; masses of bound state fermions; chiral protection, t'Hooft anomaly matching conditions; the quasi-Goldstone fermion mechanism; mass generation / family replication; quark and lepton substructure models; composite weak bosons; an alternative picture of the weak interactions; incorporating parity violation; prospects of W,Z compositeness; experimental constraints on quark/lepton substructure; magnetic moments of quarks and leptons; rare processes; cosmin beams as quark lepton structure probes.ReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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