Supersymmetry, Supergravity, and Unification

This book offers a comprehensive discussion of developments at the interface of particle physics, supergravity, and cosmology, for graduates and researchers.

Pran Nath (Author)

9780521197021, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 15 December 2016

536 pages, 21 b/w illus. 6 tables
25.5 x 18 x 3.3 cm, 1.1 kg

'This book provides a clear, pedagogical and thorough treatment of supersymmetry, supergravity and applications in the context of unification. … All in all, this is an excellent book on applications of supersymmetry and supergravity in the context of unification. Students and researchers with some working knowledge of general relativity, quantum field theory and related mathematical concepts could benefit from this book. As a final comment, the book contains a large number of exercises, a student favorite.' Parinya Karndumri, Mathematical Reviews

This unique book gives a modern account of particle physics and gravity based on supersymmetry and supergravity, two of the most significant developments in theoretical physics since general relativity. The book begins with a brief overview of the history of unification and then goes into a detailed exposition of both fundamental and phenomenological topics. The topics in fundamental physics include Einstein gravity, Yang–Mills theory, anomalies, the standard model, supersymmetry and supergravity, and the construction of supergravity couplings with matter and gauge fields, as well as computational techniques for SO(10) couplings. The topics of phenomenological interest include implications of supergravity models at colliders, CP violation, and proton stability, as well as topics in cosmology such as inflation, leptogenesis, baryogenesis, and dark matter. The book is intended for graduate students and researchers seeking to master the techniques for building grand unified models.

Dedication
Preface
1. A brief history of unification
2. Gravitation
3. Non-abelian gauge theory
4. Spontaneous breaking of global and local symmetries
5. The Standard Model
6. Anomalies
7. Effective Lagrangians
8. Supersymmetry
9. Grand unification
10. MSSM Lagrangian
11. N = 1 supergravity
12. Coupling of supergravity with matter and gauge fields
13. Supergravity grand unification
14. Phenomenology of supergravity grand unification
15. CP violation in supergravity unified theories
16. Proton stability in supergravity unified theories
17. Cosmology, astroparticle physics and SUGRA unification
18. Extended supergravities and supergravities from superstrings
19. Specialized topics
20. The future of unification
21. Appendices
22. Notations, conventions, and formulae
23. Physical constants
24. List of books and reviews for further reading
Index.

Subject Areas: Mathematical physics [PHU], Particle & high-energy physics [PHP], Nuclear physics [PHN]