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Record Nr.

UNINA9910257396103321

Titolo

Broken Symmetries [[electronic resource] ] : Proceedings of the 37. Internationale Universitätswochen für Kern- und Teilchenphysik, Schladming, Austria, February 28–March 7, 1998 / / edited by Leopold Mathelitsch, Willibald Plessas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1999

ISBN

3-540-49130-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 1999.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VII, 304 p. 10 illus.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Physics, , 0075-8450 ; ; 521

Disciplina

539.7/25

Soggetti

Mathematical physics

Nuclear physics

Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics

Particle and Nuclear Physics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Discrete and global symmetries in particle physics -- CP violation -- CP violation: Experimental status and prospects -- Spontaneously broken symmetries -- Chiral symmetry -- Quark mass hierarchies, flavor mixing and maximal CP-violation -- Duality in quantum field theory (and string theory) -- Supersymmetry, strings and unification -- Abstracts of the seminars.

Sommario/riassunto

Symmetries and the breaking of symmetries play an important role in particle physics. Several experts in the field give overviews of different symmetry aspects in subatomic physics. Topics like CP violation, chiral symmetry, supersymmetry and spontaneous symmetry breaking are addressed. The articles are the written accounts of lectures given at the 1998 Schladming Winter School and address in particular graduate students. The material is dealt with in a comprehensive and detailed manner and is at the same time pedagogically well devised.