String Theory and the Real World: From particle physics to astrophysics

Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School 2007

Edited by

C. Bachas
L. Baulieu
M. Douglas
E. Kiritsis
E. Rabinovici
P. Vanhove
P. Windey
L.G. Cugliandolo, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energi, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

Audience
Graduate students, researchers

Included in series
Les Houches

Hardbound, 692 Pages

Published: July 2008

Imprint: Elsevier

ISBN: 978-0-08-054813-5

1. I. Antoniadis, Topics in String Phenomenology 2. E. Kiritsis, Orientifolds, and the Search for the Standard Model in String Theory 3. K. Intriligator and N. Seiberg, Lectures on Supersymmetry Breaking 4. G.F. Giudice, Supersymmetry And The Real World 5. J. Maldacena, Les Houches Lectures on Cosmology and Fundamental Theory 6. E. Rabinovici, Spontaneous Breaking of Space-Time Symmetries 7. A. Uranga, The Standard Model from D-Branes in String Theory 8. P. Vanhove, Non-Renormalisation Theorems in Superstring and Supergravity Theories 9. F. Gianotti, Preparing the Lhc Experiments for First Data 10. T. Damour and M. Lilley, String Theory, Gravity and Experiment 11. J.F. Barbon and E. Rabinovici, Aspects of Hagedorn Holography 12. F. Denef, Les Houches Lectures on Constructing String Vacua 13. M. Benna and I. Klebanov, Gauge-String Dualities and Some Applications