Mohapatra R.N. Unification and supersymmetry: the frontiers of quark-lepton physics

New York: Springer, 2003. — 442 p.Derived from a course given at the University of Maryland for advanced graduate students, this book deals with some of the latest developments in our attempts to construct a unified theory of the fundamental interactions of nature. Among the topics covered are spontaneous symmetry breaking, grand unified theories, supersymmetry, and supergravity. the book starts with a quick review of elementary particle theory and continues with a discussion of composite quarks, leptons, Higgs bosons, and CP violation; it concludes with consideration of supersymmetric unification schemes, in which bosons and leptons are considered in some sense equivalent. The third edition will be completely revised and brought up to date, particularly by including discussions of the many experimental developments in recent years.Important Basic Concepts in Particle Physics
Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, Nambu-Goldstone Bosons, and the Higgs Mechanism
The SU(2) L × U(l) Model
CP Violation: Weak and Strong
Grand Unification and the SU(5) Model
Left-Right Symmetric Models of Weak Interactions and Massive Neutrinos
SO(10) Grand Unification
Technicolor and Compositeness
Global Supersymmetry
Field Theories with Global Supersymmetry
Broken Supersymmetry and Application to Particle Physics
Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model
Supersymmetric Grand Unification
Local Supersymmetry ( N = 1)
Application of Supergravity ( N = 1) to Particle Physics
Beyond N = 1 Supergravity
Superstrings and Quark-Lepton Physics