Supersymmetry and Supergravity (WS 06/07)

Dozent: A. Hebecker ,   Zeit und Ort:   Mo 9-11, Do 9-11 (Beginn: 16. Oktober),   Philosophenweg 19, Seminarraum

mit Übungen:   Di 14-16 (Beginn: 24. Oktober),   gleicher Ort,   Betreuung: Dr. S. Groot Nibbelink (nibbelink@tphys.uni-heidelberg.de,   Tel. 549 436)


Partial Notes:

Superfield Supergravity   (following Buchbinder/Kuzenko)


Content:

Spinors,   Supersymmetry (SUSY) algebra and its representations,    superspace and superfields,   SUSY breaking,   the SUSY standard model,   curved superspace,   supergravity (SUGRA),   spinors in higher dimensions,   SUSY and SUGRA in higher dimensions,   relation to string theory


Literature:

Wess, Bagger: Supersymmetry and Supergravity, Princeton Univ. Press, 1992 ("Klassiker")

Buchbinder, Kuzenko: Ideas and Methods in Supersymmetry and Supergravity, Institute of Publishing, Bristol, 1998

S. Weinberg: The Quantum Theory of Fields III, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000

P. West: Introduction to Supersymmetry and Supergravity, World Scientific, 1990

Bailin, Love: Supersymmetric Gauge Field Theory and String Theory, Institute of Publishing, Bristol, 1994

H.P. Nilles: Supersymmetry, Supergravity And Particle Physics

M.F. Sohnius: Introducing Supersymmetry

Dragon, Ellwanger, Schmidt: Supersymmetry And Supergravity

Gates, Grisaru, Rocek, Siegel: Superspace, or One thousand and one lessons in supersymmetry

Binetruy, Girardi, Grimm: Supergravity couplings: A Geometric formulation

Louis, Brunner, Huber: The supersymmetric standard model

J.A. Bagger: Weak scale supersymmetry: Theory and practice

S.P. Martin: A Supersymmetry primer

M. Drees: An Introduction to supersymmetry

J.M. Figueroa-O'Farrill: Busstepp lectures on supersymmetry

J.D. Lykken: Introduction to supersymmetry

For a list of further references see this SUSY and SUGRA Web page