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An introduction to extra dimensions and string phenomenology - Couverture souple

Antoniadis, Ignatios

 
9783330090286: An introduction to extra dimensions and string phenomenology
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3330090286 ISBN 13 : 9783330090286
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

A theory with such a mathematical beauty cannot be wrong: this was one of the main arguments in favour of string theory, which unifies all known physical theories of fundamental interactions in a single coherent description of the universe. But no one has ever observed strings, not even indirectly, neither the space of extra dimensions where they live. However, there is a possibility that the `hidden' dimensions of string theory are much larger than what we thought in the past and they become within experimental reach in future particle colliders, together with the strings themselves. Here, I give an elementary introduction of this framework and describe its main experimental predictions. In particular, I discuss the physics of extra dimensions and low scale gravity that are motivated from the problem of the so-called mass hierarchy, providing an alternative to low energy supersymmetry. This problem consists on the fact that the Higgs particle discovered at CERN's Large Hadron Collider in 2012, about 50 years after its theoretical proposal by Brout, Englert and Higgs, suffers by a quantum instability due to the presence of any physics at high energies, including gravity.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

A theory with such a mathematical beauty cannot be wrong: this was one of the main arguments in favour of string theory, which unifies all known physical theories of fundamental interactions in a single coherent description of the universe. But no one has ever observed strings, not even indirectly, neither the space of extra dimensions where they live. However, there is a possibility that the `hidden' dimensions of string theory are much larger than what we thought in the past and they become within experimental reach in future particle colliders, together with the strings themselves. Here, I give an elementary introduction of this framework and describe its main experimental predictions. In particular, I discuss the physics of extra dimensions and low scale gravity that are motivated from the problem of the so-called mass hierarchy, providing an alternative to low energy supersymmetry. This problem consists on the fact that the Higgs particle discovered at CERN's Large Hadron Collider in 2012, about 50 years after its theoretical proposal by Brout, Englert and Higgs, suffers by a quantum instability due to the presence of any physics at high energies, including gravity.

Biographie de l'auteur

*BSc Athens 77; Ms Paris 78; PhD Ecole Normale Sup 80; Habil Ecole Polytechnique (EP) 83*CNRS Researcher since 82; SLAC, Stanford 83-86; CERN, Geneva 86-88 & 96-97; EP Ass Prof 97-15; CERN staff 00-14*CNRS Research Director, Uni Paris 6 & ITP-AEC, Uni of Bern*Prizes: Bodosaki, Greece 95; CNRS Silver Medal 00; French Phys Soc 02; Eur Res Council 08.

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3330090286
ISBN 13 
9783330090286
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
96
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