Perspectives On String Phenomenology

by Gordon Kane, Bobby Acharya, Piyush Kumar

Overview

The remarkable recent discovery of the Higgs boson at the CERN Large Hadron Collider completed the Standard Model of particle physics and has paved the way for understanding the physics which may lie beyond it. String/M theory has emerged as a broad framework for describing a plethora of diverse physical systems, which includes condensed matter systems, gravitational systems as well as elementary particle physics interactions. If string/M theory is to be considered as a candidate theory of Nature, it must contain an effectively four-dimensional universe among its solutions that is indistinguishable from our own. In these solutions, the extra dimensions of string/M theory are “compactified” on tiny scales which are often comparable to the Planck length. String phenomenology is the branch of string/M theory that studies such solutions, relates their properties to data, and aims to answer many of the outstanding questions of particle physics beyond the Standard Model.This book contains perspectives on string phenomenology from some of the leading experts in the field. Contributions will range from pedagogical general overviews and perspectives to more technical reviews. We hope that the reader will get a sense of the significant progress that has been made in the field in recent years (e.g. in the topic of moduli stabilization) as well as the topics currently being researched, outstanding problems and some perspectives for the future.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789814602662
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	02/24/2015
Series:	Advanced Series On Directions In High Energy Physics , #22
Pages:	448
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.20(d)

Table of Contents

Short Introduction — Status and Progress in String/M-theory Phenomenology (Bobby Acharya, Gordon Kane and Piyush Kumar); What are Moduli? (Joe Conlon); How Should We Connect the 10/11 Dimensional Planck Scale String/M Theories to the 4D Universe, and Find Solutions That Might Describe and Explain our World? (Gordon Kane); Overview of Progress in String/M Theory Phenomenology (Bert Schellekens); The Impact of Dark Energy (Brian Greene and Gary Shiu); String Cosmology (Alexander Westphal); Mathematical Aspects of String Phenomenology (Mike Douglas); Survey of F-Theory Phenomenology (Sakura Schafer-Nameki); Local String Models and Moduli Stabilization (Fernando Quevedo); Perspective on the Weakly Coupled Heterotic String (Mary K Gaillard); Geography of Fields in Extra Dimensions: String Theory Lessons for Particle Physics (Peter Nilles); Status and Progress in Compactified M-Theory (Bobby Acharya, Gordon Kane and Piyush Kumar); Holographic Space-Time and Cosmological SUSY Breaking (Tom Banks and Willie Fischler)