Weak Scale Supersymmetry
From Superfields to Scattering Events

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

Howard Baer (Author), Xerxes Tata (Author)

9781009289849, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 9 February 2023

556 pages
26.2 x 18.5 x 3.5 cm, 1.22 kg

Supersymmetric models of particle physics predict new superpartner matter states for each particle in the Standard Model. These superpartners will have wide ranging implications, from cosmology to observations at high energy accelerators, such as CERN's LHC. In this 2006 text, the authors develop the basic concepts of supersymmetry and show how it can be incorporated into a theoretical framework for describing unified theories of elementary particles. They develop the technical tools of supersymmetry using four-component spinor notation familiar to high energy experimentalists and phenomenologists. The text takes the reader from an abstract formalism to a straightforward recipe for writing supersymmetric gauge theories of particle physics, and ultimately to the calculations necessary for practical applications at colliders and in cosmology. This is a comprehensive, practical and accessible introduction to supersymmetry for experimental and phenomenological particle physicists and graduate students. It has been reissued as an Open Access publication on Cambridge Core.

Preface
1. The Standard Model
2. What lies beyond the Standard Model
3. The Wess-Zumino model
4. The supersymmetry algebra
5. Superfield formalism
6. Supersymmetric gauge theories
7. Supersymmetry breaking
8. The Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model
9. Implications of the MSSM
10. Local supersymmetry
11. Realistic supersymmetric models
12. Sparticle production at colliders
13. Sparticle decays
14. Supersymmetric event generation
15. The search for supersymmetry at colliders
16. R parity violation
17. Epilogue
Appendices.

Subject Areas: Particle & high-energy physics [PHP]