General Information

Time and place:
11.-15. February 2008, each day at 14 s.t. - 17
Seminarraum, Pw 19

The course will be given in English if there is a demand for it, otherwise in German.

Contents

Motivation and overview, Notation and conventions (especially spinors), Supersymmetric Lagrangians: chiral and gauge supermultiplets, Supersymmetric gauge theories, Basics of superspace formulation, Minimal SUSY Standard Model (MSSM)

Prerequisites

Quantum field theory, Standard Model

Course Material

Lecture notes will be made available in the library (Philosophenweg 16), and on this web page.

Recommended Literature

There are many good books, review articles and lecture notes on SUSY. Some examples are:

Books

• J. Wess, J. Bagger, Supersymmetry and Supergravity, Princeton Univ. Press, 1992

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

• D. Bailin, A.Love, Supersymmetric Gauge Field Theory and String Theory, Institute of Publishing, Bristol, 1994

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

• H.J.W. Müller-Kirsten, A. Wiedemann, Supersymmetry, An Introduction with Conceptual and Calculational Details, World Scientific, 1987

Review Articles and Lecture Notes

• M.F. Sohnius, Introducing Supersymmetry

• H.P. Nilles, Supersymmetry, Supergravity and Particle Physics

• M.E. Peskin, Supersymmetry in Elementary Particle Physics, arXiv:0801.1928

• S.P. Martin, A Supersymmetry Primer, hep-ph/9709356

• J.M. Figueroa-O'Farrill, Busstepp Lectures on Supersymmetry, hep-th/0109172

• M. Drees, An Introduction to Supersymmetry, hep-ph/9611409

• J.A. Bagger, Weak scale supersymmetry: Theory and practice, hep-ph/9604232