TY - BOOK AU - Dine,Michael TI - Supersymmetry and string theory: beyond the standard model SN - 9781107048386 (hardback) U1 - 539.725 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Cambridge : PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Supersymmetry KW - String models N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Before the standard model -- 2. The standard model -- 3. Phenomenology of the standard model -- 4. The standard model as an effective field theory -- 5. Anomalies, instantons and the strong CP problem -- 6. Grand unification -- 7. Magnetic monopoles and solitons -- 8. Technicolor: a first attempt to explain hierarchies -- 9. Supersymmetry -- 10. A first look at supersymmetry breaking -- 11. The minimal supersymmetric standard model -- 12. Supersymmetric grand unification -- 13. Supersymmetric dynamics -- 14. Dynamical supersymmetry breaking -- 15. Theories with more than four conserved supercharges -- 16. More supersymmetric dynamics -- 17. An introduction to general relativity -- 18. Cosmology -- 19. Astroparticle physics and inflation -- 20. Introduction -- 21. The bosonic string -- 22. The superstring -- 23. The heterotic string -- 24. Effective actions in ten dimensions -- 25. Compactification of string theory I: Tri and orbifolds -- 26. Compactification of string theory II: Calabi-Yau compactifications -- 27. Dynamics of string theory at weak coupling -- 28. Beyond weak coupling: non-perturbative string theory -- 29. Large and warped extra dimensions -- 30. The landscape: a challenge to the naturalness principle -- 31. Coda: where are we headed? Appendices N2 - This fully updated second edition provides a thorough overview of string theory and supersymmetry and includes the groundbreaking Higgs discovery ER -