String theory and the real world

by Kane, G. L.

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Full title :String theory and the real world / Gordon Kane.

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Publication Date:2021.
Edition:2nd

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Publisher(s):IOP Publishing
Place of Publication:Bristol
Language:eng
Publication Date:2021.

Notes

Previous edition: San Rafael: Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2017.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource : : illustrations (black and white, and colour)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780750335836, 0750335831, 9780750335829, 0750335823
DOI:10.1088/978-0-7503-3583-6
oclc:on1276790002
Dewey Decimal:539.7258

Preface to second edition<br><br>Preface<br><br>PART 1: What we probably know<br>1 The Standard Models -- overview and perspective<br>2 The Planck scale -- compactifications -- extra dimensions<br>3 Higgs physics: the hierarchy problem<br>4 Supersymmetry<br>5 Compactification<br>6 The visible sector<br>7 Anthropic questions and string theory<br>8 The scales we need to explain<br>9 Testing theories in physics, including string theories<br>10 Dark matter candidates<br><br>PART 2: Explaining and interpreting recent compactified M-theory results<br><div>11 Moduli<br>12 Hidden sectors</div><div>13 Inflation</div><div>14 The matter asymmetry</div><div>15 Possible tests soon</div><div>16 Future colliders?</div><div>17 Three families, quark mass hierarchies and splittings</div><div>18 How much can we understand?<br><br></div>Appendix A<br><div>Appendix B</div><div>Appendix C</div>Appendix D<br>Glossary