String and string-inspired phenomenology

Abstract

In these lectures I review the progress made over the last few years in the subject of string and string-inspired phenomenology. I take a practical approach, thereby concentrating more on explicit examples rather than on formal developments. Topics covered include: introduction to string theory, the free-fermionic formulation and its general features, generic conformal field theory properties, $SU(5)\times U(1)$ GUT and string model-building, supersymmetry breaking, the bottom-up approach to string-inspired models, radiative electroweak symmetry breaking, the determination of the allowed parameter space of supergravity models and the experimental constraints on this class of models, and prospects for direct and indirect tests of string-inspired models. (Lectures delivered at the XXII ITEP International Winter School of Physics, Moscow, Russia, February 22 -- March 2, 1994)

CTP-TAMU-17/94, 39 pages (latex), 27 figures (not included). Figures are available via anonymous ftp from hplaa02.cern.ch (/pub/lopez) as one uuencoded file (MoscowFigs.uu, 1.31MB)

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• Model-Independent Analysis of Soft Terms in Effective Supergravity and in String Theory
• Towards a Theory of Soft Terms for the Supersymmetric Standard Model
• Duality Anomaly Cancellation, Minimal String Unification and the Effective Low-Energy Lagrangian of 4-D Strings
• Evidence for Top Quark Production in $\bar{p}p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s}=1.8$ TeV
• One-Loop Analysis of the Electroweak Breaking in Supersymmetric Models and the Fine-Tuning Problems
• Dynamical supersymmetry breaking with a large internal dimension
• Supersymmetry Breaking and Determination of the Unification Gauge Coupling Constant in String Theories
• Construction of Realistic Standard--like Models in the Free Fermionic Superstring Formulation
• The Search for a realistic flipped SU(5) string model
• Radiative Electroweak Symmetry Breaking and the Infrared Fixed Point of the Top Quark Mass
• Bottom-Up Approach to Uniefied Supergravity Models
• Soft SUSY Breaking Terms in Stringy Scenarios: Computation and Phenomenological Viability
• Aspects of Radiative Electroweak Symmetry Breaking in Supergravity Models
• Phenomenological Implications of Supersymmetry Breaking by the Dilaton
• Implications for Minimal Supersymmetry from Grand Unification and the Neutralino Relic Abundance
• Fermi Edge Singularities and Backscattering in a Weakly Interacting 1D Electron Gas
• The prospects for CHORUS and NOMAD in the light of COBE and GALLEX
• One loop corrections to the Neutralino sector and Radiative Electroweak Breaking in the MSSM
• Flipped Heavy Neutrinos from the Solar Neutrino Problem to Baryogenesis
• Flipped Angles and Phases: A Systematic Study
• Gaugino condensation in 4-D superstring models
• Light Threshold Effects in Supersymmetric Grand Unified Theories
• Towards a unified string supergravity model
• Light Gluinos and Unification of Couplings
• A Layman's guide to SUSY GUTs
• Radiative Symmetry Breaking and the Top Quark Mass in Local Supersymmetry
• Unification of couplings and soft supersymmetry breaking terms in 4D superstring models
• The top-quark mass in SU(5)xU(1) supergravity

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