Broken Symmetries

Proceedings of the 37. Internationale Universitätswochen für Kern- und Teilchenphysik, Schladming, Austria, February 28-March 7, 1998
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-3-662-14240-0
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, Band 521, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 482 g

Reihe: Lecture Notes in Physics

Symmetries and the breaking of symmetries play an important role in particle physics. Several experts in the field give overviews of different symmetry aspects in subatomic physics. Topics like CP violation, chiral symmetry, supersymmetry and spontaneous symmetry breaking are addressed. The articles are the written accounts of lectures given at the 1998 Schladming Winter School and address in particular graduate students. The material is dealt with in a comprehensive and detailed manner and is at the same time pedagogically well devised.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Plessas, Willibald

Mathelitsch, Leopold

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Theoretische Physik, Mathematische Physik, Computerphysik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Discrete and global symmetries in particle physics.- CP violation.- CP violation: Experimental status and prospects.- Spontaneously broken symmetries.- Chiral symmetry.- Quark mass hierarchies, flavor mixing and maximal CP-violation.- Duality in quantum field theory (and string theory).- Supersymmetry, strings and unification.- Abstracts of the seminars.