
By Rabindra N. Mohapatra
Derived from a path given on the college of Maryland for complex graduate scholars, this booklet bargains with a number of the newest advancements in our makes an attempt to build a unified thought of the elemental interactions of nature. one of the themes coated are spontaneous symmetry breaking, grand unified theories, supersymmetry, and supergravity. the ebook begins with a short overview of straightforward particle conception and keeps with a dialogue of composite quarks, leptons, Higgs bosons, and CP violation; it concludes with attention of supersymmetric unification schemes, within which bosons and leptons are thought of in a few experience equivalent.||The 3rd variation has been thoroughly revised and taken brand new, relatively through together with discussions of the various experimental advancements lately.