Unification and Supersymmetry

Download or read book Unification and Supersymmetry written by Rabindra N. Mohapatra and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-03-31 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.