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Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement No. 123



From the Standard Model to Grand Unified Theories


Proceedings of the 6th Yukawa International Seminar

Edited by M. Bando, K. Inoue and T. Kugo

The present status of theoretical particle physics is that the standard model is being established more and more firmly though the precision experiments at LEP, while it still remains unclear what is the theory beyond the standard model which is bound to exist, for instance, due to the facts of charge quantization and anomaly cancellation between quarks and leptons. During the past two decades, much effort and attempts have been made beyond the standard model, and many insights and a great amount of knowledge have been accumulated through active studies in various fields. It would be quite appropriate to reconsider the present status of the standard model and examine critically various ideas and attempts towards unified theories.

This volume contains the proceedings of "From the Standard Model to Grand Unified Theories" held at Kyoto International Conference Hall in August 1995. This volume includes topics on supersymmetric standard model, technicolor, grand unified theories, supergravity and superstring. Among many excellent talks, remarkable new developements in the duality in supersymmetric gauge theories and string theories attracted many participants.

This volume informs readers of the present status of reserach of this field and will give some hints for those who are intersted in this fields.


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