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.
Author(s): Rabindra N. Mohapatra (auth.)
Series: Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics
Edition: 3
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 421
Tags: Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory; Quantum Physics
Important Basic Concepts in Particle Physics....Pages 1-20
Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, Nambu-Goldstone Bosons, and the Higgs Mechanism....Pages 21-37
The SU(2) L × U(l) Model....Pages 38-73
CP Violation: Weak and Strong....Pages 74-105
Grand Unification and the SU(5) Model....Pages 106-129
Left-Right Symmetric Models of Weak Interactions and Massive Neutrinos....Pages 130-174
SO(10) Grand Unification....Pages 175-192
Technicolor and Compositeness....Pages 193-219
Global Supersymmetry....Pages 220-235
Field Theories with Global Supersymmetry....Pages 236-248
Broken Supersymmetry and Application to Particle Physics....Pages 249-259
Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model....Pages 260-292
Supersymmetric Grand Unification....Pages 293-309
Local Supersymmetry ( N = 1)....Pages 310-334
Application of Supergravity ( N = 1) to Particle Physics....Pages 335-347
Beyond N = 1 Supergravity....Pages 348-360
Superstrings and Quark-Lepton Physics....Pages 361-415
