Preface
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Part 1 Effective field theory: the Standard Model, supersymmetry, unification
1 Before the Standard Model
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2 The Standard Model
2.1 Yan9-Mills theory
2.2 Realizations of symmetry in quantum field theory
2.3 The quantization of Yan9-Mills theories
2.4 The particles and fields of the Standard Model
2.5 The gauge boson masses
2.6 Quark and lepton masses
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3 Phenomenology of the Standard Model
3.1 The weak interactions
3.2 The quark and lepton mass matrices
3.3 The strong interactions
3.4 The renormalization group
3.5 Calculating the beta function
3.6 The strong interactions and dimensional transmutation
3.7 Confinement and lattice gauge theory
3.8 Strong interaction processes at high momentum transfer
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4 The Standard Model as an effective field theory
4.1 Lepton and baryon number violation
4.2 Challenges for the Standard Model
4.3 The hierarchy problem
4.4 Dark matter and dark energy
4.5 Summary: successes and limitations of the
Standard Model
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5 Anomalies, instantons and the strong CP problem
5.1 The chiral anomaly
5.2 A two-dimensional detour
5.3 Real QCD
5.4 The strong CP problem
5.5 Possible solutions of the strong CP problem
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6 Grand unification
6.1 Cancellation of anomalies
6.2 Renormalization of couplings
6.3 Breaking to SU(3)×SU(2)×U(1)
6.4 SU(2)×U(1)breaking
6.5 Charge quantization and magic monopoles
6.6 Proton decay
6.7 Other groups
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7 Magic monopoles and solitons
7.1 Solitons in 1 1 dimensions
7.2 Solitons in 2 1 dimensions: strings or vortices
7.3 Magic monopoles
7.4 The BPS limit"
7.5 Collective coordinates for the monopole solution
7.6 The Witten effect: the electric charge in the presence of θ
7.7 Electric-magnetic duality
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8 Technicolor: a first attempt to explain hierarchies
8.1 QCD in a world without Higgs fields
8.2 Fermion masses: extended technicolor
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Part 2 Supersymmetry
Part 3 String theory
Part 4 The appendices
References
Index
