String theory and the real world. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Gordon Kane.
• Authors: Kane, G. L
• Contents: Preface to second edition; ; Preface; ; PART 1: What we probably know; 1 The Standard Models – overview and perspective; 2 The Planck scale - compactifications - extra dimensions; 3 Higgs physics: the hierarchy problem; 4 Supersymmetry; 5 Compactification; 6 The visible sector; 7 Anthropic questions and string theory; 8 The scales we need to explain; 9 Testing theories in physics, including string theories; 10 Dark matter candidates; ; PART 2: Explaining and interpreting recent compactified M-theory results; 11 Moduli; 12 Hidden sectors 13 Inflation 14 The matter asymmetry 15 Possible tests soon 16 Future colliders? 17 Three families, quark mass hierarchies and splittings 18 How much can we understand?; ; Appendix A; Appendix B Appendix C Appendix D; Glossary
• Edition: 2nd
• Publisher Details: Bristol : IOP Publishing
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 539.7258; String models; Superstring theories
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780750335836; 9780750335829
• Related ISBNs: 9780750335812
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