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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 has been completely revised and brought up to date, particularly by including discussions of the many experimental developments in recent years.

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A very useful text

This text provides detailed outlines of the major contributions to the field of elementary particle physics. The reader is pointed to the appropriate research papers to fill in the gaps. This text is built for beginning researchers who wish to gain command of the fundamental principles behind the theory and phenomenology of particle physics and serves also as a reference for senior researchers. This text therefore makes a very important contribution to the field of high energy physics.
October 17, 2005

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