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Unification and Supersymmetry

The Frontiers of Quark-Lepton Physics

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  • © 2003

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Authors:
  1. Rabindra N. Mohapatra

    1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

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Part of the book series: Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics (GTCP)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Important Basic Concepts in Particle Physics

    Pages 1-20

  3. Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, Nambu-Goldstone Bosons, and the Higgs Mechanism

    Pages 21-37

  4. The SU(2)L × U(l) Model

    Pages 38-73

  5. CP Violation: Weak and Strong

    Pages 74-105

  6. Grand Unification and the SU(5) Model

    Pages 106-129

  7. Left-Right Symmetric Models of Weak Interactions and Massive Neutrinos

    Pages 130-174

  8. SO(10) Grand Unification

    Pages 175-192

  9. Technicolor and Compositeness

    Pages 193-219

  10. Global Supersymmetry

    Pages 220-235

  11. Field Theories with Global Supersymmetry

    Pages 236-248

  12. Broken Supersymmetry and Application to Particle Physics

    Pages 249-259

  13. Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model

    Pages 260-292

  14. Supersymmetric Grand Unification

    Pages 293-309

  15. Local Supersymmetry (N = 1)

    Pages 310-334

  16. Application of Supergravity (N = 1) to Particle Physics

    Pages 335-347

  17. Beyond N = 1 Supergravity

    Pages 348-360

  18. Superstrings and Quark-Lepton Physics

    Pages 361-415

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 418-421
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About this book

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.

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)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

    Rabindra N. Mohapatra

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Unification and Supersymmetry

  • Book Subtitle: The Frontiers of Quark-Lepton Physics

  • Authors: Rabindra N. Mohapatra

  • Series Title: Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b98865

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2003

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-95534-6Published: 01 October 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-3042-2Published: 06 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-22736-8Published: 31 March 2006

  • Series ISSN: 0938-037X

  • Edition Number: 3

  • Number of Pages: XX, 421

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Quantum Physics

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