| PrefaceA note on choice ofmetricText websitePart 1 Effective field theory：the Standard Model，supersymmetry，unification1 Before the Standard ModelSuggested reading2 The Standard Model2.1 Yan9—Mills theory2.2 Realizations of symmetry in quantum field theory2.3 The quantization of Yan9—Mills theories2.4 The particles and fields of the Standard Model2.5 The gauge boson masses2.6 Quark and lepton masses Suggested readingExercises 3 Phenomenology of the Standard Model 3.1 The weak interactions3.2The quark and lepton mass matrices3.3 The strong interactions3.4The renormalization group3.5 Calculating the beta function3.6The strong interactions and dimensional transmutation3.7 Confinement and lattice gauge theory3.8 Strong interaction processes at high momentum transfer.Suggested readingExercises 4 The Standard Model as an effective field theory4.1Lepton and baryon number violation’4.2 Challenges for the Standard Model4.3 The hierarchy problem4.4Dark matter and dark energy4.5 Summary：successes and limitations of theStandard ModelSuggested reading5 Anomalies，instantons and the strong CP problem5.1 The chiral anomaly5.2 A two-dimensional detour5.3 Real QCD5.4 The strong CP problem5.5 Possible solutions of the strong CP problemSuggested readingExercises6 Grand unification6.1 Cancellation of anomalies6.2 Renormalization of couplings6.3 Breaking to SU(3)×SU(2)×U(1)6.4 SU(2)×U(1)breaking6.5 Charge quantization and magnetic monopoles6.6Proton decay6.7 Other groupsSuggested readingExercises7 Magnetic monopoles and solitons7.1 Solitons in 1+1 dimensions7.2 Solitons in 2+1 dimensions：strings or vortices7.3 Magnetic monopoles 7.4 The BPS limit’7.5 Collective coordinates for the monopole solution7.6 The Witten effect：the electric charge in the presence of θ7.7 Electric—magnetic dualitySuggested readingExercises8 Technicolor：a first attempt to explain hierarchies8.1 QCD in a world without Higgs fields8.2 Fermion masses：extended technicolor8.3 Precision electroweak measurementsSuggested readingExercisesPart 2 Supersymmetry9 Supersymmetry9.1 The supersymmetry algebra and its representations9.2 Superspace9.3 N —— 1 Lagrangians9.4 The supersymmetry currents9.5 The ground-state energy in globally supersymmetric theories9.6 Some simple models9.7 Non-renormalization theorems9.8 Local supersymmetry: supergravitySuggested readingExercises10 A first look at supersymmetry breaking10.1Spontaneous supersymmetry breaking10.2The goldstino theorem10.3Loop corrections and the vacuum degeneracy10.4Explicit, soft supersymmetry breaking10.5Supersymmetry breaking in supergravity modelsSuggested readingExercises11 The Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model11.1Soft supersymmetry breaking in the MSSM11.2SU(2)U(I) breaking11.3Why is one Higgs mass negative?11.4Radiative corrections to the Higgs mass limit11.5Embedding the MSSM in supergravity11.6The#term11.7Constraints on soft breakingsSuggested readingExercises12 Supersymmetric grand unification12.1A supersymmetric grand unified model12.2Coupling constant unification12.3Dimension-five operators and proton decaySuggested readingExercises13 Supersymmetric dynamics13. l Criteria for supersymmetry breaking: the Witten index13.2 Gaugino condensation in pure gauge theories13.3 Supersymmetric QCD13.4 Nf 13.5 The superpotential in the case Nf 13.6 Nf= N - 1 : the instanton-generated superpotentialSuggested readingExercises14 Dynamical supersymmetry breaking14.1 Models of dynamical supersymmetry breaking14.2 Particle physics and dynamical supersymmetry breakingSuggested readingExercises15 Theories with more than four conserved supercharges15.1 N= 2 theories: exact moduli spaces15.2 A still simpler theory: N ———— 4 Yang-Mills15.3 A deeper understanding of the BPS condition15.4 Seiberg-Witten theorySuggested readingExercises16 More supersymmetric dynamics16.1 Conformaily invariant field theories16.2 More supersymmetric QCD16.3 Nf= Ne16.4 Nf>N+I16.5 Nf> 3/2NSuggested readingExercises17 An introduction to general relativity17.1 Tensors in general relativity17.2 Curvature17.3 The gravitational action17.4 The Schwarzschild solution17.5 Features of the Schwarzschiid metric17.6 Coupling spin0rs to gravitySuggested readingExercises18 Cosmology18.1 A history of the universe |
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