Quarks and Leptons From Orbifolded Superstring

2. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-54004-3
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 536 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 832 g

Reihe: Lecture Notes in Physics

This book offers a detailed guide on the journey towards the minimal supersymmetric standard model down the orbifold road. It takes the viewpoint that the chirality of matter fermions is an essential aspect that orbifold compactification allows to derive from higher-dimensional string theories in a straightforward manner. Halfway between textbook and tutorial review, the book is intended for the graduate student and particle phenomenologist wishing to get acquainted with this field.

Zielgruppe

Graduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Choi, Kang-Sin

Kim, Jihn E.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik Kernphysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik Teilchenphysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Theoretische Physik, Mathematische Physik, Computerphysik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction and Summary
2 Standard Model and Beyond 

3 Orbifolds and Spinors
4 Field Theoretic Orbifolds
5 Quantization of Strings
6 Strings on Orbifolds
7 Structure of String Orbifold
8 Interactions on Orbifolds
9 String Orbifold Spectra9A A gross view of Orbifold Phenomenology9B Anomaly Cancellation
10 Standard-like Models from Orbifolds10A Z3 Constructions10B Product of prime orbifolds10C Z12-I Constructions10D Z6-II Constructions
11 GUTs from Orbifolds11A GUTs from orbifolds11B Flavors
12 Smooth Compactication12A Calabi-Yau Compactication12B Blowing up 12C M-theory and F-theory Ideas
13 Epilogue 
Appendix A Fermionic ConstructionsAppendix B Intersecting Brane ModelsAppendix C Ellyptic FunctionsAppendix D Useful Tables for Model BuildingAppendix E Some Algebraic Elements of Lie Groups

Über Autor(innen)

Kang-Sin Choi is assistant professor division chair of the Scranton Honors Program at Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Rep. of Korea. His research focuses on the Standard Model of particle physics and on how it can be completed by string theory.

Jihn E. Kim is professor emeritus at the Seoul National University, Rep. of Korea. As theoretical physicist, his research focuses on fundamental particles and their interactions, based on symmetry principles and superstring models. Some of his research interests concentrate on neutral currents, neutrino magnetic moment, invisible axion, dark matter, grand unification, and the cosmological constant problem.