超對稱和弦論

《超對稱和弦論》是世界圖書出版公司2009年8月1日出版的圖書。正文語種: 英語。

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《超對稱和弦論(英文版)》內容簡介:TheStandardModelhasreignedtriumphantforthreedecades.Forjustaslong,theoristsandexperimentalistshavespeculatedaboutwhatmightliebeyond.Manyofthesespeculationspointtoaparticularenergyscale,theteraelectronvolt(TeV)scalewhichwillbeprobedforthefirsttimeattheLHC.Thestimulusforthesestudiesarisesfromthemostmysterious-andstillmissing-pieceoftheStandardModel:theHiggsboson.Precisionelectroweakmeasurementsstronglysuggestthatthisparticleiselementary(inthatanystructureislikelyfarsmallerthanitsComptonwavelength),andthatitshouldbeinamassrangewhereitwillbediscoveredattheLHC.Buttheexistenceoffundamentalscalarsispuzzlinginquantumfieldtheory,andstronglysuggestsnewphysicsattheTeVscale.Amongthemostprominentproposalsforthisphysicsisahypotheticalnewsymmetryofnature,supersymmetry,whichisthefocusofmuchofthistext.Others,suchastechnicolor,andlargeorwarpedextradimensions,arealsotreatedhere.

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作者:(美國)戴恩(MichaelDine)

目錄

Preface

A note on choice ofmetric

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Part 1 Effective field theory:the Standard Model,supersymmetry,unification

1 Before the Standard Model

Suggested reading

2 The Standard Model

2.1 Yan9—Mills theory

2.2 Realizations of symmetry in quantum field theory

2.3 The quantization of Yan9—Mills theories

2.4 The particles and fields of the Standard Model

2.5 The gauge boson masses

2.6 Quark and lepton masses

Suggested reading

Exercises

3 Phenomenology of the Standard Model

3.1 The weak interactions

3.2The quark and lepton mass matrices

3.3 The strong interactions

3.4The renormalization group

3.5 Calculating the beta function

3.6The strong interactions and dimensionaltransmutation

3.7 Confinement and lattice gauge theory

3.8 Strong interaction processes at high momentum transfer.

Suggested reading

Exercises

4 The Standard Model as an effective field theory

4.1Lepton andbaryonnumber violation’

4.2 Challenges for the Standard Model

4.3 The hierarchy problem

4.4Dark matter and dark energy

4.5 Summary:successes and limitations of the

Standard Model

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5 Anomalies,instantons and the strong CP problem

5.1 The chiral anomaly

5.2 A two-dimensionaldetour

5.3 Real QCD

5.4 The strong CP problem

5.5 Possible solutions of the strong CP problem

Suggested reading

Exercises

6 Grand unification

6.1 Cancellation of anomalies

6.2 Renormalization of couplings

6.3 Breaking to SU(3)×SU(2)×U(1)

6.4 SU(2)×U(1)breaking

6.5 Charge quantization and magnetic monopoles

6.6Proton decay

6.7 Other groups

Suggested reading

Exercises

7 Magnetic monopoles and solitons

7.1 Solitons in 1+1 dimensions

7.2 Solitons in 2+1 dimensions:strings or vortices

7.3 Magnetic monopoles

7.4 The BPS limit’

7.5 Collective coordinates for the monopole solution

7.6 The Witten effect:the electric charge in the presence of θ

7.7 Electric—magnetic duality

Suggested reading

Exercises

8 Technicolor:a first attempt to explain hierarchies

8.1 QCD in a world without Higgs fields

8.2fermionmasses:extended technicolor

8.3 Precision electroweak measurements

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Exercises

Part 2 Supersymmetry

9 Supersymmetry

9.1 The supersymmetry algebra and its representations

9.2 Superspace

9.3 N —— 1 Lagrangians

9.4 The supersymmetry currents

9.5 The ground-state energy in globally supersymmetric theories

9.6 Some simple models

9.7 Non-renormalization theorems

9.8 Local supersymmetry: supergravity

Suggested reading

Exercises

10 A first look at supersymmetry breaking

10.1Spontaneous supersymmetry breaking

10.2The goldstino theorem

10.3Loop corrections and the vacuum degeneracy

10.4Explicit, soft supersymmetry breaking

10.5Supersymmetry breaking in supergravity models

Suggested reading

Exercises

11 The Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model

11.1Soft supersymmetry breaking in the MSSM

11.2SU(2)U(I) breaking

11.3Why is one Higgs mass negative?

11.4Radiative corrections to the Higgs mass limit

11.5Embedding the MSSM in supergravity

11.6The#term

11.7Constraints on soft breakings

Suggested reading

Exercises

12 Supersymmetric grand unification

12.1A supersymmetric grand unified model

12.2Coupling constant unification

12.3Dimension-five operators and proton decay

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Exercises

13 Supersymmetric dynamics

13. l Criteria for supersymmetry breaking: the Witten index

13.2 Gaugino condensation in pure gauge theories

13.3 Supersymmetric QCD

13.4 Nf < N:Anon-perturbative superpotential

13.5 The superpotential in the case Nf < N - 1

13.6 Nf = N - 1 : the instanton-generated superpotential

Suggested reading

Exercises

14 Dynamical supersymmetry breaking

14.1 Models of dynamical supersymmetry breaking

14.2particle physicsand dynamical supersymmetry breaking

Suggested reading

Exercises

15 Theories with more than four conserved supercharges

15.1 N = 2 theories: exact moduli spaces

15.2 A still simpler theory: N ———— 4 Yang-Mills

15.3 A deeper understanding of the BPS condition

15.4 Seiberg-Witten theory

Suggested reading

Exercises

16 More supersymmetric dynamics

16.1 Conformaily invariant field theories

16.2 More supersymmetric QCD

16.3 Nf = Ne

16.4 Nf>N+I

16.5 Nf > 3/2N

Suggested reading

Exercises

17 An introduction to general relativity

17.1 Tensors in general relativity

17.2 Curvature

17.3 The gravitational action

17.4 The Schwarzschild solution

17.5 Features of the Schwarzschiid metric

17.6 Coupling spin0rs to gravity

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Exercises

18 Cosmology

18.1 A history of the universe

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Part 3 String theory

Part 4 The appendices

References

Index

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