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Product Groups, Discrete Symmetries, and Grand Unification
Yael Shadmi
We present GUT models based on an GUT group. These models maintain the main successes of simple-group GUTs but permit simple solutions to the doublet-triplet sp…
TASI Lectures on The Strong CP Problem
Michael Dine
These lectures discuss the parameter of QCD. After an introduction to anomalies in four and two dimensions, the parameter is introduced. That such topological parameters can ha…
The Utility of Quantum Field Theory
Michael Dine
This talk surveys a broad range of applications of quantum field theory, as well as some recent developments. The stress is on the notion of effective field theories. Topics includ…
Possible Scales of New Physics
Michael Dine
The biggest question in beyond the standard model physics is what are the scales of new physics. Ideas about scales, as well as experimental evidence and constraints, are surveyed…
Supersymmetry Phenomenology With a Broad Brush
Michael Dine
These lectures provide an introduction to supersymmetry phenomenology. They include an overview of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. The notion of soft breaking is explain…
Topics in String Phenomenology
Michael Dine
We consider two questions in string ``phenomenology.'' First, are there any generic string predictions? Second, are there any general lessons which string theory suggests for think…