08.128.624 Supersymmetry

WiSe 2019/20

Lecturer: Felix Yu [yu001]

Email address is [username] at uni-mainz.de

Lectures are Fridays (10-12 pm, c.t.) in Minkowski room

This course is not for academic credit

References

(Main textbook) Mikhail Shifman, Advanced Topics in Quantum Field Theory, ISBN-13: 978-0521190848

(Main textbook) John Terning, Modern Supersymmetry

Howard Baer and Xerxes Tata, Weak Scale Supersymmetry: From Superfields to Scattering Events

Michael Dine, Supersymmetry and String Theory: Dynamics and Duality

Steven Weinberg, The Quantum Theory of Fields, Volume III

Julius Wess and Jonathan Bagger, Supersymmetry and Supergravity

Stephen Martin, A Supersymmetry Primer, arXiv: hep-ph/9709356

No lecture on November 1, 2019 or December 20, 2019.

Syllabus

Flyer

Lecture 1 Introduction and motivation; the Coleman-Mandula theorem and its loophole; review of Poincare algebra and extension to SUSY algebra; superspace

Lecture 2 More super-Poincare algebra; immediate consequences of unbroken SUSY; superfields and covariant superderivatives; chiral superfields; vector superfields

Lecture 3 Supersymmetric interactions; D-terms, Superpotential

Lecture 4 Potential from Superpotential; Holomorphic Couplings; R-symmetry; Wess-Zumino Superpotential

Lecture 5 Soft SUSY Breaking

Lecture 6 MSSM phenomenology from soft SUSY breaking

Lecture 7 SUSY breaking and minimal SUGRA, GMSB, AMSB

Lecture 8 Two Higgs Doublet Models

Lecture 9 SUSY breaking, F-term and D-term SUSY breaking, super-Higgs mechanism

Lecture 10 Super Yang-Mills, holomorphic gauge coupling, gaugino condensation

Lecture 11 Supersymmetric QCD

Lecture 12 't Hooft Anomaly Matching, Phases of Gauge Theory, Seiberg Duality

Lecture 13 Finish Seiberg Duality, a-theorem, c-theorem