Unification and Supersymmetry

• Important Basic Concepts in Particle Physics.- Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, Nambu-Goldstone Bosons, and the Higgs Mechanism.- The SU(2)L × U(l) Model.- CP Violation: Weak and Strong.- Grand Unification and the SU(5) Model.- Left-Right Symmetric Models of Weak Interactions and Massive Neutrinos.- SO(10) Grand Unification.- Technicolor and Compositeness.- Global Supersymmetry.- Field Theories with Global Supersymmetry.- Broken Supersymmetry and Application to Particle Physics.- Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model.- Supersymmetric Grand Unification.- Local Supersymmetry (N = 1).- Application of Supergravity (N = 1) to Particle Physics.- Beyond N = 1 Supergravity.- Superstrings and Quark-Lepton Physics.

From the reviews of the third edition: "...The book covers a very wide range of phenomena within the large subject of grand unification and supersymmetry in elementary particle physics. Almost every possible development in the field is included here."-Mathreviews.com "An extremely useful resource for graduate students and researchers, this textbook, which was derived from a course given at the University of Maryland for advanced graduate students deals with some of the latest developments in our attempts to construct a unified theory of nature's fundamental interactions. ... I can safely recommend this textbook, which gives a fairly complete and self-contained theoretical treatment of the subject." (Georges Kohnen, Physicalia, Vol. 57 (2), 2005)