Supersymmetry

ISBN-13: 9781468484007 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 708 str.

K. Dietz; R. Flume; G. Von Gehlen

Opis

Ten years ago the Sunnner Institute on "Trends in Particle The- ory" was held in Bonn. Among other subj ects J. Wess spoke on his work wi th B. ZlDllino on "Fermi - Bose-Supersymmetry." In the meantime this subject has developed into one of the most exciting fields of research and the Bonn Summer Institute (August 20 - August 31 1984) was devoted exclusively to supersymmetry. The main aim of the Summer Institute was to provide a compre- hensive introduction for mainly young post-doctoral theoretical physicists to the currently most discussed subjects in supersynnne- try and supergravity. The intention was to emphasize the pedagogi- cal presentation. The seminars given in addition to the introduc- tory lectures treat more specialized subjects and are closer to research reports. Since the topics, ranging fromalgebraic structures to experimental implications do not arrange easily in a one-dimension- al array, the lectures are reproduced in alphabetic order of the lec- turers. The Summer Institute was made possible by the NATO Advanced Study Programme, additional support was granted by the Bundesmi- nisterium fur Forschung und Technologie and the Ministerium fur Wissenschaft und Forschung of Nordrhein-Westfalen. We gratefully acknowledge their cooperation. It is a pleasure to thank the lecturers and seminar speakers for the effort invested in the presentation of the lectures and in their collaboration in preparing the written notes.

Spis treści

Lectures.- Supersymmetry and Index Theory.- Supersymmetric Sigma Models.- Superstrings.- Supergravity — The Basics and Beyond.- d=4 Supergravity from d=11 Conjectures Revisited.- Supersymmetry and Supergravity for Model Builders: General Couplings and Symmetry Breaking.- Supergraphs.- How Can We Decide if Nature is Supersymmetric?.- Supersymmetric Functional Integration Measures.- Selected Topics from the Representation Theory of Lie Superalgebras.- Gravity before Supergravity.- Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theories.- Seminars.- On the Non Perturbative Breakdown of Global Supersymmetry.- Supergravity Couplings and Superforms.- Supersymmetry in Nuclear Physics.- Minimal Supersymmetric Models: The Top Quark Mass and the Mass of the Lightest Higgs.- Supergravity Grand Unification.- Towards a Theory of Fermion Masses: A Two-Loop Finite N = 1 Global Susy GUT.- Recent Results in the Renormalization of Supersymmetric Gauge Theories.- Evidence for a Narrow Massive State in the Radiative Decays of the Upsilon.- Disorder, Dimensional Reduction and Supersymmetry in Statistical Mechanics.