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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? | |
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| To understand nature we need to know about particles, forces, and rules | |
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| Research in progress (RIP) | |
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| Equations? | |
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| Prediction, postdiction, and testing | |
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| Where are the superpartners? | |
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| The boundaries of science have moved | |
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| The standard model of Particle Physics | |
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| The forces | |
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| Mass, decays, and quanta | |
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| The particles: Do we really know the fundamental constituents of matter? | |
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| Particles and fields | |
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| There are more particles | |
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| New ideas and remarkable predictions of the Standard Model | |
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| Experimental foundations of the Standard Model | |
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| Picturing Standard Model processes: Feynman diagrams | |
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| Spin, fermions, and bosons | |
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| Beyond the Standard Model | |
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| Why physics is the easiest science--Effective theories | |
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| Organizing effective theories by distance scales | |
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| Supersymmetry is an effective theory too | |
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| The physics of the Planck scale | |
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| Effective theories replace renormalization | |
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| The human scales | |
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| Supersymmetry and sparticles | |
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| What is supersymmetry? | |
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| Some mysteries supersymmetry would solve | |
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| The superpartners | |
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| Supersymmetry as a spacetime symmetry: superspace | |
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| Hidden or "broken" supersymmetry | |
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| Testing supersymmetry experimentally | |
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| Detectors and colliders | |
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| Recognizing superpartners | |
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| Sparticles: their personalities, backgrounds, and signatures at LEP and Fermilab | |
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| Visit Fermilab | |
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| Future colliders | |
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| Can we do the experiments we need to do? | |
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| What is the universe made of? | |
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| What particles are there in the universe? | |
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| Is the lightest superpartner the cold dark matter of the universe? | |
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| Higgs physics | |
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| Finding Higgs bosons | |
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| Current evidence | |
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| LEP, Fermilab, and LHC | |
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| Studying Higgs bosons at Fermilab | |
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| Some additional help from supersymmetry, and some challenges | |
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| Matter and antimatter asymmetry | |
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| Proton decay? | |
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| Rare decays | |
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| CP violation | |
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| Inflation | |
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| Perspectives and concerns | |
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| Supersymmetry, string theory, and the primary theory | |
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| String theory and M-theory | |
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| Broken or hidden supersymmetry | |
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| The role of data | |
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| Effective theories and the primary theory | |
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| Can we really understand the origin of the universe and its natural law(s)? | |
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| Testing string theory and the primary theory | |
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| Practical limits? | |
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| Anthropic questions and supersymmetry | |
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| The end of science? | |
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| Appendices | |
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| The Standard Model Higgs mechanism | |
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| The supersymmetry explanation of the Higgs mechanism | |
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| Charginos and neutralinos | |
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| Extra dimensions--large extra dimensions? | |
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| Some Recommended Reading | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Symbols | |
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| Acronyms and Abbreviations | |
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| Terms | |
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| Index | |