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

Klappentext

This book offers a detailed guide 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 straightforward manner. Halfway between textbook and tutorial review, the book is intended for the graduate student and particle phenomenologist wishing to get acquainted with this field.

Inhalt

and Summary.- Standard Model and Beyond.- Orbifolds and Spinors.- Field Theoretic Orbifolds.- Quantization of Strings.- Strings on Orbifolds.- Partition Function and Spectrum.- Interactions on Orbifolds.- String Orbifold Spectra.- Orbifold Phenomenology.- Code Manual and Z3 Tables.- Calabi-Yau Manifold.- Other Constructions.- Elliptic Functions.- Useful Tables for Model Building.- Some Algebraic Elements of Lie Groups.