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Superspace Or One Thousand and One Lessons in Supersymmetry
TL;DR: The 1983 book, free at last, with corrections and bookmarks as mentioned in this paper, was the first book to be published with CM (TeX) fonts, from the original troff, but now with CM fonts.
Abstract: The 1983 book, free at last, with corrections and bookmarks. From the original troff, but now with CM (TeX) fonts.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a pedagogical introduction to supersymmetry, focusing on readers who are familiar with the Standard Model and quantum field theory, but who have had little or no prior exposure to superymmetry.
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.
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16 Sep 1997
TL;DR: In this paper, a pedagogical introduction to supersymmetry is provided, aimed at readers who are familiar with the Standard Model and quantum field theory, but who have had little or no prior exposure to super-ymmetry.
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, 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.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a natural relation between sigma models based on Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces in weighted projective spaces and Landau-Ginzburg models is found.
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TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that supersymmetry breaking necessarily generates at one loop a scalar and gaugino mass as a consequence of the super-Weyl anomaly.
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...In Section 10, we will describe the requirements for these to be of the type and order of magnitude to generate a reasonably natural spectrum consistent with flavor-violating constraints....
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss aspects of global and gauged symmetries in quantum field theory and quantum gravity, focusing on discrete gauge symmetsries, and show that all continuous and continuous gauge symmetry are compact and all charges allowed by Dirac quantization are present in the spectrum.
Abstract: We discuss aspects of global and gauged symmetries in quantum field theory and quantum gravity, focusing on discrete gauge symmetries. An effective Lagrangian description of Zp gauge theories shows that they are associated with an emergent Zp one-form (KalbRamond) gauge symmetry. This understanding leads us to uncover new observables and new phenomena in nonlinear σ-models. It also allows us to expand on Polchinski’s classification of cosmic strings. We argue that in models of quantum gravity, there are no global symmetries, all continuous gauge symmetries are compact, and all charges allowed by Dirac quantization are present in the spectrum. These conjectures are not new, but we present them from a streamlined and unified perspective. Finally, our discussion about string charges and symmetries leads to a more physical and more complete understanding of recently found consistency conditions of supergravity.
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...[36]) D α̇Rαα̇ = χα Dα̇χα = Dα̇χ α̇ −Dχα = 0 ....
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