Introduction to supersymmetry in particle and nuclear physics

Book · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1981

OSTI ID:6349797

Castanos, O; Frank, A; Urrutia, L

This book constitutes the proceedings of an International School of Supersymmetry held in Mexico City in 1981. Lectures presented include an introduction to supersymmetry (symmetries in relativistic quantum field theory, supersymmetry in quantum field theory, Dirac matrices and Majorana spinors, supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, scalar multiplet and auxiliary fields, supergravity, N=1 supersymmetric theories, extended supersymmetry algebras, representations of extended supersymmetry, N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, extended supergravity), superfields (irreducible representations and chiral superfields, invariants and ''tensor calculus,'' gauge superfield, N=1 supergravity), grand unification with and without supersymmetry (supersymmetric models), Yang-Mills theories with global and local supersymmetry (Higgs and Superhiggs effect in unified field theories), and supergroups and their representations (fermion and Grassmann numbers, supertrace and superdeterminant, harmonic oscillator representation, the Tilde operator, eigenvalues of Casimir operators, branching rules, Kac-Dynkin diagrams and supertableaux).

• OSTI ID: 6349797
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
ALGEBRA
CASIMIR OPERATORS
CHIRALITY
DIAGRAMS
DIRAC OPERATORS
DOCUMENT TYPES
EIGENVALUES
ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
EQUIPMENT
FERMIONS
FIELD THEORIES
GAUGE INVARIANCE
GRAND UNIFIED THEORY
HARMONIC OSCILLATORS
HIGGS MODEL
INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES
LECTURES
LIE GROUPS
MAJORANA THEORY
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS
MATHEMATICS
MULTIPLETS
NUCLEAR PHYSICS
OSCILLATORS
PARTICLE MODELS
PARTICLE PROPERTIES
PHYSICS
PROCEEDINGS
QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
QUANTUM OPERATORS
SCALAR FIELDS
SPINORS
SU GROUPS
SUPERGRAVITY
SUPERSYMMETRY
SYMMETRY
SYMMETRY GROUPS
TENSORS
UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS
UNIFIED-FIELD THEORIES
YANG-MILLS THEORY