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Supersymmetry: Structure and Phenomena

Extensions of the Standard Model

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  • © 2001

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Authors:
  1. Nir Polonsky

    1. Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA

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  • The first text on supersymmetry phenomenology to address advanced students in a pedagogical way and at the same time review thoroughly the present state of the art
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics Monographs (LNPMGR, volume 68)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XV
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  2. Basic Ingredients

    Pages 3-8

  3. The Hierarchy Problem and Beyond

    Pages 9-18

  4. Bottom-Up Construction

    Pages 21-26

  5. Supersymmetry

    Pages 27-40

  6. Supersymmetrizing the Standard Model

    Pages 41-62

  7. Unification

    Pages 67-77

  8. The Heavy Top and Radiative Symmetry Breaking

    Pages 79-85

  9. The Higgs Potential and the Light Higgs Boson

    Pages 87-95

  10. The Flavor Problem

    Pages 99-105

  11. Models

    Pages 107-118

  12. Neutrinos

    Pages 121-127

  13. Vacuum Stability

    Pages 129-133

  14. Supersymmetry Breaking Operators

    Pages 135-145

  15. N = 2 Supersymmetry

    Pages 147-151

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 153-169
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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.

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"I was looking recently for an introductory book to supersymmetry for a student beginning his "memoire", and was somewhat at a loss. I needed a basic introduction, with the essential of the motivation and the construction of Lagrangians. In the same time, such a discussion is impossible without some consideration of the "ugly part" of supersymmetry, namely soft breaking terms and their motivation. Here I did not want to fall in the infinite number of reviews covering a forest of "natrual" models, but wanted rather some basic principles, and even more important, a critical approach. You guess it: this is exactly what I found in the book of Polonsky. [...] An outstanding book, and a very compact, critical introduction to supersymmetry, I consider this to be required buying for any graduate library." (Physicalia, 2002)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA

    Nir Polonsky

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