Supersymmetry and string theory : beyond the standard model / Michael Dine.

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Reissued as Open Access in 2022. Originally published in 2016.

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Before the standard model -- The standard model -- Phenomenology of the standard model -- The standard model as an effective field theory -- Anomalies, instantons and the strong CP problem -- Grand unification -- Magnetic monopoles and solitons -- Technicolor: a first attempt to explain hierarchies -- Supersymmetry -- A first look at supersymmetry breaking -- The minimal supersymmetric standard model -- Supersymmetric grand unification -- Supersymmetric dynamics -- Dynamical supersymmetry breaking -- Theories with more than four conserved supercharges -- More supersymmetric dynamics -- An introduction to general relativity -- Cosmology -- Astroparticle physics and inflation -- String theory -- The bosonic string -- The superstring -- The heterotic string -- Effective actions in ten dimensions -- Compactification of string theory I: Tri and orbifolds -- Compactification of string theory II: Calabi-Yau compactifications -- Dynamics of string theory at weak coupling -- Beyond weak coupling: non-perturbative string theory -- Large and warped extra dimensions -- The landscape: a challenge to the naturalness principle -- Coda: where are we headed?.

This text is an introduction to the fields of experimental and theoretical particle physics and cosmology. The book focuses on three principal areas: supersymmetry, string theory, and astrophysics and cosmology. The chapters on supersymmetry introduce the basics of supersymmetry and its phenomenology, and cover dynamics, dynamical supersymmetry breaking, and electric-magnetic duality. The book then introduces general relativity and the big bang theory, and the basic issues in inflationary cosmologies. The section on string theory discusses the spectra of known string theories, and the features of their interactions. Material added in the second edition includes the pivotal Higgs discovery and the results of the WMAP and Planck experiments. This book will be of great interest to graduates and researchers in the fields of particle theory, string theory, astrophysics, and cosmology. It has been reissued as an Open Access publication on Cambridge Core.