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Spring 2025 Semester
Dec 16, 2025 |
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| PHYS 7733 - Topics: Elementary Particle Physics and Cosmology |
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Covers unified theories including evidence for supersymmetric SU(5) unification of couplings, and the grand unified scale and proton decay. Discusses particle physics and cosmology including a brief introduction to Einstein’s theory of general relativity, candidates for dark matter, inflation and the primordial fluctuations, and the problem of the cosmological constant. Examines developments leading to string theory including normal mode expansion; open and closed strings; deduction of D-26 for bosonic and D-10 for superstrings; scattering amplitudes in strings; heterotic string; compactifications on the torus, orbifolds, and Calabi-Yau manifolds; 4-D strings; and superstring phenomenology. Explores physics with extra dimensions including gravity at small distances, branes, and new approaches to the hierarch problem. May be repeated without limit.
4.000 Credit hours 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Lecture Physics Department Course Attributes: GS College of Science, Topics Course Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate |
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