TY - BOOK AU - Nath,Pran TI - Supersymmetry, supergravity, and unification T2 - Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics SN - 9780521197021 (hardback ; alk. paper) U1 - 530.1423 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Cambridge : PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Supersymmetry KW - Supergravity KW - Unified field theories N1 - Includes indexes; 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 N2 - This book offers a comprehensive discussion of developments at the interface of particle physics, supergravity, and cosmology, for graduates and researchers ER -