Particle Physics of Brane Worlds and Extra Dimensions

A comprehensive account of new models of extra dimensions which form an important part of present-day high-energy physics.

Sreerup Raychaudhuri (Author), K. Sridhar (Author)

9780521768566, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 25 April 2016

340 pages, 51 b/w illus. 8 tables
25.5 x 18 x 2.4 cm, 0.77 kg

'The book offers a detailed introduction to the topic of extra dimensions within the context of fundamental physics. It consists of fourteen chapters … clearly aimed at research students with an interest in both fundamental physics and exploring the possibility of extra dimensions. It is a very interesting book.' John Bartlett, Mathematics Today

The possibility that we live in a higher-dimensional world with spatial dimensions greater than three started with the early work of Kaluza and Klein. However, in addressing experimental constraints, early model-builders were forced to compactify these extra dimensions to very tiny scales. With the development of brane-world scenarios it became possible to consider novel compactifications which allow the extra dimensions to be large or to provide observable effects of these dimensions at experimentally accessible energy scales. This book provides a comprehensive account of these recent developments, keeping the high-energy physics implications in focus. After an historical survey of the idea of extra dimensions, the book deals in detail with models of large extra dimensions, warped extra dimensions and other models such as universal extra dimensions. The theoretical and phenomenological implications are discussed in a pedagogical manner for both researchers and graduate students.

Preface
1. Dimensional dreams
2. The Standard Model and beyond
3. The birth of compact dimensions
4. String theory: a review
5. Effective theories
6. Large extra dimensions
7. Visible towers of invisible gravitons
8. Making black holes
9. Universal extra dimensions
10. Warped compactifications
11. Graviton resonances
12. Stability of warped Worlds
13. Exploring the bulk
14. Epilogue
Appendix A. General relativity in a nutshell
Appendix B. Testing the inverse square law
Index.

Subject Areas: Particle & high-energy physics [PHP], Physics [PH], Mathematics & science [P]