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Supersymmetry, supergravity, and unification / Pran Nath.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge monographs on mathematical physicsPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.Description: xvii, 520 pages ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780521197021 (hardback ; alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 530.1423 23 N274
Contents:
1. A brief history of unification -- 2. Gravitation -- 3. Non-Abelian gauge theory -- 4. Spontaneous breaking of global and local symmetries -- 5. The standard model -- 6. Anomalies -- 7. Effective Lagrangians -- 8. Supersymmetry -- 9. Grand unification -- 10. The MSSM Lagrangian -- 11. N=1 supergravity -- 12. Coupling of supergravity with matter and gauge fields -- 13. Supergravity grand unification -- 14. Phenomenology of supergravity grand unification -- 15. CP violation in supergravity unified theories -- 16. Proton stability in supergravity unified theories -- 17. Cosmology, astroparticle physics and SUGRA unification -- 18. Extended supergravities and supergravities from superstrings -- 19. Specialized topics -- 20. The future of unification -- 21. Appendices -- 22. Notation, conventions, and formulae -- 23. Constants and units -- 24. Further reading
Summary: This book offers a comprehensive discussion of developments at the interface of particle physics, supergravity, and cosmology, for graduates and researchers.
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1. A brief history of unification --
2. Gravitation --
3. Non-Abelian gauge theory --
4. Spontaneous breaking of global and local symmetries --
5. The standard model --
6. Anomalies --
7. Effective Lagrangians --
8. Supersymmetry --
9. Grand unification --
10. The MSSM Lagrangian --
11. N=1 supergravity --
12. Coupling of supergravity with matter and gauge fields --
13. Supergravity grand unification --
14. Phenomenology of supergravity grand unification --
15. CP violation in supergravity unified theories --
16. Proton stability in supergravity unified theories --
17. Cosmology, astroparticle physics and SUGRA unification --
18. Extended supergravities and supergravities from superstrings --
19. Specialized topics --
20. The future of unification --
21. Appendices --
22. Notation, conventions, and formulae --
23. Constants and units --
24. Further reading

This book offers a comprehensive discussion of developments at the interface of particle physics, supergravity, and cosmology, for graduates and researchers.

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