Quarks and Leptons from Orbifolded Superstring

ISBN-13: 9783030540043 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 536 str.

Kang-Sin Choi; Jihn E. Kim

Spis treści

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 Spectra

9A A gross view of Orbifold Phenomenology

9B Anomaly Cancellation

10 Standard-like Models from Orbifolds

10A Z3 Constructions

10B Product of prime orbifolds

10C Z12-I Constructions

10D Z6-II Constructions

11 GUTs from Orbifolds

11A GUTs from orbifolds

11B Flavors

12 Smooth Compactication

12A Calabi-Yau Compactication

12B Blowing up 

12C M-theory and F-theory Ideas

13 Epilogue 

Appendix A Fermionic Constructions

Appendix B Intersecting Brane Models

Appendix C Ellyptic Functions

Appendix D Useful Tables for Model Building

Appendix E Some Algebraic Elements of Lie Groups

O autorze

​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.

Blurb

This book is a guide for all those who want to explore the standard model using string theory. The approach pursued is “halfway” between a textbook and advanced research work and, accordingly, the book will allow both graduate students and particle phenomenologists to easily get acquainted with this fascinating field.

In this new edition the authors report on the status quo of the standard model following the discovery of the Higgs Boson, as well as the latest results concerning physics beyond the standard model. They present a formal introduction to string orbifolds and explain in detail how the massless states and the Kaluza-Klein spectra can be derived from the partition function. In turn, they provide an overview of orbifold phenomenology, by introducing the key aspects of string orbifolds in the context of SUSY standard models. In closing, the authors discuss the Grand Unified Theories (GUTs) from orbifolds and share key concepts regarding Calabi-Yau compactifications, M-theory and F-theory.