Modern Supersymmetry

Author : John Terning
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780191565496

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Modern Supersymmetry by John Terning Pdf

The book begins with a brief review of supersymmetry, and the construction of the minimal supersymmetric standard model and approaches to supersymmetry breaking. General non-perturbative methods are also reviewed leading to the development of holomorphy and the Affleck-Dine-Seiberg superpotential as powerful tools for analysing supersymmetric theories. Seiberg duality is discussed in detail, with many example applications provided, with special attention paid to its use in understanding dynamical supersysmmetry breaking. The Seiberg-Witten theory of monopoles is introduced through the analysis of simpler N=1 analogues. Superconformal field theories are described along with the most recent development known as "amaximization". Supergravity theories are examined in 4, 10, and 11 dimensions, allowing for a discussion of anomaly and gaugino mediation, and setting the stage for the anti- de Sitter/conformal field theory correspondence. This book is unique in containing an overview of the important developments in supersymmetry since the publication of "Suppersymmetry and Supergravity" by Wess and Bagger. It also strives to cover topics that are of interest to both formal and phenomenological theorists.

Author : Herbi K. Dreiner,Howard E. Haber,Stephen P. Martin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1031 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781009347532

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From Spinors to Supersymmetry by Herbi K. Dreiner,Howard E. Haber,Stephen P. Martin Pdf

Supersymmetry is an extension of the successful Standard Model of particle physics; it relies on the principle that fermions and bosons are related by a symmetry, leading to an elegant predictive structure for quantum field theory. This textbook provides a comprehensive and pedagogical introduction to supersymmetry and spinor techniques in quantum field theory. By utilising the two-component spinor formalism for fermions, the authors provide many examples of practical calculations relevant for collider physics signatures, anomalies, and radiative corrections. They present in detail the component field and superspace formulations of supersymmetry and explore related concepts, including the theory of extended Higgs sectors, models of grand unification, and the origin of neutrino masses. Numerous exercises are provided at the end of each chapter. Aimed at graduate students and researchers, this volume provides a clear and unified treatment of theoretical concepts that are at the frontiers of high energy particle physics.

Author : Pran Nath
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521197021

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Supersymmetry, Supergravity, and Unification by Pran Nath Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive discussion of developments at the interface of particle physics, supergravity, and cosmology, for graduates and researchers.

Author : G. L. Kane
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814307505

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Perspectives on Supersymmetry II by G. L. Kane Pdf

Supersymmetry is at an exciting stage of development. It extends the Standard Model of particle physics into a more powerful theory that both explains more and allows more questions to be addressed. Most importantly, it opens a window for studying and testing fundamental theories at the Planck scale. Experimentally we are finally entering the intensity and energy and sensitivity regions where superpartners and supersymmetric dark matter candidates are likely to be detected, and then studied. There has been progress in understanding the remarkable physics implications of supersymmetry, including the derivation of the Higgs mechanism, the unification of the Standard Model forces, cosmological connections such as a candidate for the cold dark matter of the universe and consequences for understanding the cosmological history of the universe, and more. This volume begins with an excellent pedagogical introduction to the physics and methods and formalism of supersymmetry which is accessible to anyone with a basic knowledge of the Standard Model of particle physics.Next is an overview of open questions, followed by chapters on topics such as how to detect superpartners and tools for studying them, the current limits on superpartner masses as we enter the LHC era, the lightest superpartner as a dark matter candidate in thermal and non-thermal cosmological histories, and associated Z'' physics. Most chapters have been extended and updated from the earlier edition and some are new. This superb book will allow interested physicists to understand the coming experimental and theoretical progress in supersymmetry and the implications of discoveries of superpartners, and will also help students and workers to quickly learn new aspects of supersymmetry they want to pursue.

Author : Nir Polonsky
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003-07-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540446422

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Supersymmetry: Structure and Phenomena by Nir Polonsky Pdf

The book is a fairly non-technical introduction to modern supersymmetry phenomenology, approaching the subject in new and unique ways. It is suitable both for theorists and experimentalists, and emphasizes an intuitive grasp of the subject. Theoretical and experimental motivations, and the status and prospects of low-energy supersymmetry are discussed. It is shown by explicit construction that the stabilization of any perturbative theory which contains fundamental scalar bosons naturally leads to the notion of supersymmetry. The minimal supersymmetric extension of the standard model is then pedagogically defined and its experimental status is summarized. Renormalization of the models, including unificaiton, is discussed and the linkage between high and low energies is demonstrated, providing a potential probe of Planck-scale physics, such as unified theories. Besides a host of other phenomena, Higgs physics is discussed and the Higgs mass is shown to provide a crucial test of nearly all supersymmetric theories.

Author : Paulo Vargas Moniz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642115752

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Quantum Cosmology - The Supersymmetric Perspective - Vol. 1 by Paulo Vargas Moniz Pdf

We read in order to know we are not alone, I once heard, and perhaps it could also be suggested that we write in order not to be alone, to endorse, to promote continuity. The idea for this book took about ten years to materialize, and it is the author’s hope that its content will constitute the beginning of further explorations beyond current horizons. More speci cally, this book appeals to the reader to engage upon and persevere with a journey, moving through the less well explored territories in the evolution of the very early universe, and pushing towards new landscapes. P- haps, during or after consulting this book, this attitude and this willingness will be embraced by someone, somewhere, and this person will go on to enrich our quantum cosmological description of the early universe, by means of a clearer supersymm- ric perspective. It is to these creative and inquisitive ‘young minds’ that the book is addressed. The reader will not therefore nd in this book all the answers to all the problems regarding a supersymmetric and quantum description of the early universe, and this remark is substantiated in the book by a list of unresolved and challenging problems, itself incomplete.

Author : Howard Baer,Xerxes Tata
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781009289849

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Weak Scale Supersymmetry by Howard Baer,Xerxes Tata Pdf

This OA text develops the basic concepts of supersymmetry for experimental and phenomenological particle physicists and graduate students.

Author : Laurent Baulieu,Michael R. Douglas,Karim Benakli,Bruno Mansoulié,Eliezer Rabinovici,Leticia F. Cugliandolo
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780198727965

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Theoretical Physics to Face the Challenge of LHC by Laurent Baulieu,Michael R. Douglas,Karim Benakli,Bruno Mansoulié,Eliezer Rabinovici,Leticia F. Cugliandolo Pdf

The book gathers the lecture notes of the Les Houches Summer School that was held in August 2011 for an audience of advanced graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in particle physics, theoretical physics, and cosmology, areas where new experimental results were on the verge of being discovered at CERN. Every Les Houches School has its own distinct character. This one was held during a summer of great anticipation that at any moment contact might be made with the most recent theories of the nature of the fundamental forces and the structure of space-time. In fact, during the session, the long anticipated discovery of the Higgs particle was announced. The book vividly describes the fruitful and healthy "schizophrenia" that is the rule among the community of theoreticians who have split into several components: those doing phenomenology, and those dealing with highly theoretical problems, with a few trying to bridge both domains. The lectures by theoreticians covered many directions in the theory of elementary particles, from classics such as the Supersymmetric Standard Model to very recent ideas such as the relation between black holes, hydrodynamics, and gauge-gravity duality. The lectures by experimentalists explained in detail how intensively and how precisely the LHC collider has verified the theoretical predictions of the Standard Model, predictions that were at the front lines of experimental discovery during the 70's, 80's and 90's, and how the LHC is ready to make new discoveries. They described many of the ingenious and pioneering techniques developed at CERN for the detection and the data analysis of billions of billions of proton-proton collisions.

Author : Konstantin Efetov
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1999-09-13
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0521663822

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Supersymmetry in Disorder and Chaos by Konstantin Efetov Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the ideas and applications of supersymmetry.

Author : Yuji Tachikawa
Publisher : Springer
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319088228

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N=2 Supersymmetric Dynamics for Pedestrians by Yuji Tachikawa Pdf

Understanding the dynamics of gauge theories is crucial, given the fact that all known interactions are based on the principle of local gauge symmetry. Beyond the perturbative regime, however, this is a notoriously difficult problem. Requiring invariance under supersymmetry turns out to be a suitable tool for analyzing supersymmetric gauge theories over a larger region of the space of parameters. Supersymmetric quantum field theories in four dimensions with extended N=2 supersymmetry are further constrained and have therefore been a fertile field of research in theoretical physics for quite some time. Moreover, there are far-reaching mathematical ramifications that have led to a successful dialogue with differential and algebraic geometry. These lecture notes aim to introduce students of modern theoretical physics to the fascinating developments in the understanding of N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories in a coherent fashion. Starting with a gentle introduction to electric-magnetic duality, the author guides readers through the key milestones in the field, which include the work of Seiberg and Witten, Nekrasov, Gaiotto and many others. As an advanced graduate level text, it assumes that readers have a working knowledge of supersymmetry including the formalism of superfields, as well as of quantum field theory techniques such as regularization, renormalization and anomalies. After his graduation from the University of Tokyo, Yuji Tachikawa worked at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton and the Kavli Institute for Physics and Mathematics of the Universe. Presently at the Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Tachikawa is the author of several important papers in supersymmetric quantum field theories and string theory.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1030 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780521800884

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From Spinors to Supersymmetry by Anonim Pdf

Author : Shaaban Khalil,Stefano Moretti
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781315350875

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Supersymmetry Beyond Minimality by Shaaban Khalil,Stefano Moretti Pdf

Supersymmetry (SUSY) is one of the most important ideas ever conceived in particle physics. It is a symmetry that relates known elementary particles of a certain spin to as yet undiscovered particles that differ by half a unit of that spin (known as Superparticles). Supersymmetric models now stand as the most promising candidates for a unified theory beyond the Standard Model (SM). SUSY is an elegant and simple theory, but its existence lacks direct proof. Instead of dismissing supersymmetry altogether, Supersymmetry Beyond Minimality: from Theory to Experiment suggests that SUSY may exist in more complex and subtle manifestation than the minimal model. The book explores in detail non-minimal SUSY models, in a bottom-up approach that interconnects experimental phenomena in the fermionic and bosonic sectors. The book considers with equal emphasis the Higgs and Superparticle sectors, and explains both collider and non-collider experiments. Uniquely, the book explores charge/parity and lepton flavour violation. Supersymmetry Beyond Minimality: from Theory to Experiment provides an introduction to well-motivated examples of such non-minimal SUSY models, including the ingredients for generating neutrino masses and/or relaxing the tension with the heavily constraining Large Hadron Collider (LHC) data. Examples of these scenarios are explored in depth, in particular the discussions on Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric SM (NMSSM) and B-L Supersymmetric SM (BLSSM).

Author : Essig Rouven,Low Ian
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789813233355

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Anticipating the Next Discoveries in Particle Physics by Essig Rouven,Low Ian Pdf

This volume is a compilation of lectures delivered at the TASI 2016 summer school, 'Anticipating the Next Discoveries in Particle Physics', held at the University of Colorado at Boulder in June 2016. The school focused on topics in theoretical particle physics, phenomenology, dark matter, and cosmology of interest to contemporary researchers in these fields. The lectures are accessible to graduate students in the initial stages of their research careers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780080951515

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

This book is a collection of lectures given in July 2007 at the Les Houches Summer School on "String Theory and the Real World: From particle physics to astrophysics." Provides a pedagogical introduction to topics in String Theory, and Cosmology Addresses each topic from the basis to the most recent developments Covers the lectures by internationally-renowned and leading experts

Author : Paul Langacker
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 651 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781498763226

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The Standard Model and Beyond by Paul Langacker Pdf

This new edition of The Standard Model and Beyond presents an advanced introduction to the physics and formalism of the standard model and other non-abelian gauge theories. It provides a solid background for understanding supersymmetry, string theory, extra dimensions, dynamical symmetry breaking, and cosmology. In addition to updating all of the experimental and phenomenological results from the first edition, it contains a new chapter on collider physics; expanded discussions of Higgs, neutrino, and dark matter physics; and many new problems. The book first reviews calculational techniques in field theory and the status of quantum electrodynamics. It then focuses on global and local symmetries and the construction of non-abelian gauge theories. The structure and tests of quantum chromodynamics, collider physics, the electroweak interactions and theory, and the physics of neutrino mass and mixing are thoroughly explored. The final chapter discusses the motivations for extending the standard model and examines supersymmetry, extended gauge groups, and grand unification. Thoroughly covering gauge field theories, symmetries, and topics beyond the standard model, this text equips readers with the tools to understand the structure and phenomenological consequences of the standard model, to construct extensions, and to perform calculations at tree level. It establishes the necessary background for readers to carry out more advanced research in particle physics. Supplementary materials are provided on the author’s website and a solutions manual is available for qualifying instructors.