Supersymmetry and String Theory: Beyond the Standard Model

by Michael Dine

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.

Genres: Physics, Science

536 pages, Hardcover

First published December 30, 2002

Reviews

[Ahurdis]

I learned that I'm stunted, and that I wanted to learned more in the few years left before the calcification and atrophy are complete.

[Roy Huff]

I'm a love of all things science. This was a good book and I enjoyed it very much. If you like physics, you should enjoy this, but M theory has made this book outdated.