Supersymmetry

Course description

The course is held in at Tuesdays 10:15 - 13:00 in the room ExWi 119 (weekly, March 10 - April 7 2015).

Content: Motivations of Supersymmetry; Formalism (algebra, transformations, representations, superfields, breaking mechanisms); Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) and phenomenology, (supersymmetric) grand unified theories, an introduction to supergravity.

Bibliography

• P. Binetruy, "Supersymmetry: theory, experiment and cosmology", Oxford University Press
• I. Aitchinson, "Supersymmetry in article physics: An elementary introduction", Cambridge
• D. Bailin, A. Love, "Supersymmetric gauge field theory and string theory", IOP publishing, Bristol
• S. Weinberg, "The quantum theory of fields. Vol. 3: Supersymmetry.", Cambridge

Lecturer

Prof. Dr. Ignatios Antoniadis