Supersymmetry and supergravity: Phenomenology and grand unification

Technical Report · Fri Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1993

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/101325· OSTI ID:101325

Arnowitt, R ^[1]; Nath, P ^[2]

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1. Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)
2. Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA (United States). Dept. of Physics

A survey is given of supersymmetry and supergravity and their phenomenology. Some of the topics discussed are the basic ideas of global supersymmetry, the minimal supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) and its phenomenology, the basic ideas of local supersymmetry (supergravity), grand unification, supersymmetry breaking in supergravity grand unified models, radiative breaking of SU(2) {times} U(1), proton decay, cosmological constraints, and predictions of supergravity grand unified models. While the number of detailed derivations are necessarily limited, a sufficient number of results are given so that a reader can get a working knowledge of this field.

• Research Organization: Superconducting Super Collider Lab., Dallas, TX (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States); National Science Foundation, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC35-89ER40486
• OSTI ID: 101325
• Report Number(s): SSCL-Preprint-503; CTP-TAMU-52/93; ON: DE95011207; IN: NUB-TH--3073-93; CNN: Grant PHY-916593; Grant PHY-9306906; TRN: 95:020257
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: [1993]
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

66 PHYSICS
SUPERSYMMETRY
SUPERGRAVITY
GRAND UNIFIED THEORY
PROTONS
WEAK PARTICLE DECAY
SYMMETRY BREAKING
STANDARD MODEL