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Author Terning, John, 1962- author.

Title Modern supersymmetry : dynamics and duality / John Terning
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 324 pages) : illustrations
Series International series of monographs on physics ; 132
International series of monographs on physics (Oxford, England) ; 132.
Contents 1. Introduction to supersymmetry -- 2. SUSY lagrangians -- 3. SUSY gauge theories -- 4. The minimal supersymmetric standard model -- 5. SUSY breaking and the MSSM -- 6. Gauge mediation -- 7. Nonperturbative results -- 8. Holomorphy -- 9. The afflect-dine-seiberg superpotential -- 10. Seiberg duality for SUSY QCD -- 11. More seiberg duality -- 12. Dynamical SUSY breaking -- 13. The seiberg -- witten theory -- 14. Superconformal field theories -- 15. Supergravity -- 16. Anomaly and gaugino mediation -- 17. Introduction to the AdS/CFT correspondence -- A. Spinors and Pauli matrices -- B. Group theory
Summary Terning begins with a review of supersymmetry, the construction of the minimal supersymmetric standard model and approaches to supersymmetry breaking. General non-perturbative methods are also reviewed, Seiberg duality is discussed, the Sieberg-Witten theory of monopolies is introduced and much more
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Supersymmetry.
SCIENCE -- Physics -- Nuclear.
SCIENCE -- Physics -- Atomic & Molecular.
Supersymmetry.
Supersymmetrie
Supersymmetrie.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191524394
0191524395
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