A SUPERSYMMETRY PRIMER

1997/09/16 by Stephen P. Martin · 1 voice · 32 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #R-parity #Superspace #Supersymmetry #Supersymmetry breaking #Theoretical physics #hep-ex #hep-ph #hep-th

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160 pages. Version 7 (January 2016) contains many updates and improvements. Errata, source files, and a version with larger type (12 pt, 179 pages) can be found at http://www.niu.edu/spmartin/primer/

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Abstract

I provide a pedagogical introduction to supersymmetry. The level of discussion is aimed at readers who are familiar with the Standard Model and quantum field theory, but who have had little or no prior exposure to supersymmetry. Topics covered include: motivations for supersymmetry, the construction of supersymmetric Lagrangians, superspace and superfields, soft supersymmetry-breaking interactions, the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM), R-parity and its consequences, the origins of supersymmetry breaking, the mass spectrum of the MSSM, decays of supersymmetric particles, experimental signals for supersymmetry, and some extensions of the minimal framework.

Citations

• Duality in Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory
• Supersymmetry and the MSSM: An Elementary Introduction
• Introduction to Supersymmetry
• Supersymmetry Phenomenology With a Broad Brush
• TASI 2008 Lectures on Dark Matter
• Weak-Scale Supersymmetry: Theory and Practice
• Probing Extra Matter in Gauge Mediation Through the Lightest Higgs Boson Mass
• CalcHEP 2.3: MSSM, structure functions, event generation, batchs, and generation of matrix elements for other packages
• Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
• Higgs Boson Masses and Couplings in the Minimal Supersymmetric Model
• CompHEP 4.4—automatic computations from Lagrangians to events
• Automatic one-loop calculation of MSSM processes with GRACE
• Supersymmetry and Superfields
• SDECAY: a Fortran code for the decays of the supersymmetric particles in the MSSM
• Supersymmetry and Supergravity
• ISAJET 7.37: A Monte Carlo Event Generator for pp, pp, and e⁺e^- Interactions
• Implications of Supersymmetry Breaking with a Little Hierarchy between Gauginos and Scalars
• 2004 TASI Lectures on Supersymmetry Breaking
• Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis

Cited by

• The Primordial Lithium Problem
• Deriving models for keV sterile neutrino Dark Matter with the Froggatt-Nielsen mechanism
• SUSY Multilepton Signatures at Tevatron
• Search for supersymmetry in events with a photon, a lepton, and missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at s=8 TeV
• Axino dark matter from thermal production
• Electroweakino searches at the HL-LHC in the baryon number violating MSSM
• Measuring unification
• Scalar flavour-changing neutral currents in the large-tan(β) limit
• Towards 5D Grand Unification without SUSY Flavor Problem
• Resolving the existence of Higgsinos in the LHC inverse problem
• Search for top squarks in final states with two top quarks and several light-flavor jets in proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV
• Status of the 98–125 GeV Higgs bosons scenario with updated LHC-8 data
• The Nelson-Seiberg Theorem Generalized with Nonpolynomial Superpotentials
• Chaotic inflation in Jordan frame supergravity
• Fourth level MSSM inflation from new flat directions
• Measuring the Higgs sector
• Supersymmetric extra U(1) models with a singlino-dominated lightest superparticle
• Detecting exotic heavy leptons at the large hadron collider
• Dark matter and fundamental physics with the Cherenkov Telescope Array
• Collider signals from slow decays in supersymmetric models with an intermediate-scale solution to theμproblem
• The Higgs mass from a string-theoretic perspective
• Natural MSSM after the LHC 8 TeV run
• Testing the Nambu-Goldstone hypothesis for quarks and leptons at the LHC
• Natural supersymmetry and unification in five dimensions
• The axion quality problem: global symmetry breaking and wormholes
• All possible lightest supersymmetric particles in R-parity violating minimal supergravity models
• SUSY searches at the Tevatron
• H→ γγ beyond the Standard Model
• Accidental symmetries in the 2HDMEFT
• Cosmological constraint on the light gravitino mass from CMB lensing and cosmic shear
• Searches for pair production of charginos and top squarks in final states with two oppositely charged leptons in proton-proton collisions at √(s)=13 TeV
• Gauged supergravities

Discussions

• Let's follow Martin's SUSY Primer . The definition of the integration measures here is (Martin 4.1.18) $$ \mathrm{d}^{4}\theta=\mathrm{d}^{2}\theta\,\mathrm{d}^{2}\theta^\dagger =\left(-\frac{1}{4}\va [stackexchange, 0 points]