Overview

Derived from a course given at the University of Maryland for advanced graduate students, this book deals with some of the latest developments in our attempts to construct a unified theory of the fundamental interactions of nature. Among the topics covered are spontaneous symmetry breaking, grand unified theories, supersymmetry, and supergravity. the book starts with a quick review of elementary particle theory and continues with a discussion of composite quarks, leptons, Higgs bosons, and CP violation; it concludes with consideration of supersymmetric unification schemes, in which bosons and leptons are considered in some sense equivalent. The third edition will be completely revised and brought up to date, particularly by including discussions of the many experimental developments in recent years.

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Author:   Rabindra N. Mohapatra
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 3rd ed. 2003
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.676kg
ISBN:  

9781441930422

ISBN 10:   1441930426
Pages:   421
Publication Date:   06 December 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Important Basic Concepts in Particle Physics.- Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, Nambu-Goldstone Bosons, and the Higgs Mechanism.- The SU(2)L × U(l) Model.- CP Violation: Weak and Strong.- Grand Unification and the SU(5) Model.- Left-Right Symmetric Models of Weak Interactions and Massive Neutrinos.- SO(10) Grand Unification.- Technicolor and Compositeness.- Global Supersymmetry.- Field Theories with Global Supersymmetry.- Broken Supersymmetry and Application to Particle Physics.- Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model.- Supersymmetric Grand Unification.- Local Supersymmetry (N = 1).- Application of Supergravity (N = 1) to Particle Physics.- Beyond N = 1 Supergravity.- Superstrings and Quark-Lepton Physics.

Reviews

From the reviews of the third edition: ...The book covers a very wide range of phenomena within the large subject of grand unification and supersymmetry in elementary particle physics. Almost every possible development in the field is included here. -Mathreviews.com An extremely useful resource for graduate students and researchers, this textbook, which was derived from a course given at the University of Maryland for advanced graduate students deals with some of the latest developments in our attempts to construct a unified theory of nature's fundamental interactions. ! I can safely recommend this textbook, which gives a fairly complete and self-contained theoretical treatment of the subject. (Georges Kohnen, Physicalia, Vol. 57 (2), 2005)

From the reviews of the third edition: ...The book covers a very wide range of phenomena within the large subject of grand unification and supersymmetry in elementary particle physics. Almost every possible development in the field is included here. -Mathreviews.com An extremely useful resource for graduate students and researchers, this textbook, which was derived from a course given at the University of Maryland for advanced graduate students deals with some of the latest developments in our attempts to construct a unified theory of nature,s fundamental interactions. ... I can safely recommend this textbook, which gives a fairly complete and self-contained theoretical treatment of the subject. (Georges Kohnen, Physicalia, Vol. 57 (2), 2005)

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