Quarks and Leptons From Orbifolded Superstring

Kang-Sin Choi, Jihn E. Kim (auth.)3540327630, 9783540327639, 9783540327646

This book seeks to be a guidebook on the journey towards the minimal supersymmetric standard model down the orbifold road. It takes the viewpoint that the chirality of matter fermions is an essential aspect that orbifold compactification allows to derive from higher-dimensional string theories in a rather straight-forward manner.

Halfway between a textbook and a tutorial review, Quarks and Leptons from Orbifolded Superstring is intended for the graduate student and particle phenomenologist wishing to get acquainted with this field

Table of contents :
Introduction and Summary….Pages 1-11
Standard Model and Beyond….Pages 13-42
Orbifolds and Spinors….Pages 43-69
Field Theoretic Orbifolds….Pages 71-101
Quantization of Strings….Pages 103-147
Strings on Orbifolds….Pages 149-183
Partition Function and Spectrum….Pages 185-202
Interactions on Orbifolds….Pages 203-234
String Orbifold Spectra….Pages 235-265
Orbifold Phenomenology….Pages 267-308
Code Manual and Z 3 Tables….Pages 309-349
Calabi–Yau Manifold….Pages 351-366
Other Constructions….Pages 367-381
Elliptic Functions….Pages 383-385
Useful Tables for Model Building….Pages 387-391
Some Algebraic Elements of Lie Groups….Pages 393-398