超对称代表了过去50年来粒子物理学探索基本对称性的巅峰。传统上，费米子和玻色子被视为是两种不同的粒子，满足不同的对称性。然而在超对称理论中，它们是统一的。本书简明介绍了粒子物理学中的超对称理论，读者对象为粒子物理专业的研究生，以及希望了解超对称现象的实验和理论研究人员。作者在说明基本理论的同时，很注重对实际物理系统具体处理方法的介绍，从而把读者带到该领域的研究前沿，使他们能够进行科学研究。本书还讲到了旋量的基本表示和超场，帮助读者掌握更先进的处理问题方法。作者把该书的重点放在对物理概念的解释上，同时对很多重要步骤给出了详细的数学推导过程。

Preface

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction and motivation

 1.1 The SM fine-tuning problem

 1.2 Three quantitative indications

 1.3 Theoretical considerations

2 Spinors: Weyl, Dirac and Majorana

 2.1 Spinors and Lorentz transformations

 2.2 Constructing invariants and 4-vectors out of 2-component(Weyl) spinors

 2.3 A more streamlined notation for Weyl spinors

 2.4 Dirac spinors using X- (or L-) type spinors only

 2.5 Majorana spinors

3 Introduction to supersymmetry and the MSSM

 3.1 Simple supersymmetry

 3.2 A first glance at the MSSM

4 The supersymmetry algebra and supermultiplets

 4.1 One way of obtaining the SU(2) algebra

 4.2 Supersymmetry generators ('charges') and their algebra

 4.3 The supersymmetry current

 4.4 Supermultiplets

 4.5 A snag, and the need for a significant complication

5 The Wess-Zumino model

 5.1 Interactions and the superpotential

 5.2 Cancellation of quadratic divergences in the W-Z model

6 Superfieids

 6.1 SUSY transformations on fields

 6.2 A differential operator representation of the SUSY generators

 6.3 Chiral superfields, and their (chiral) component fields

 6.4 Products of chiral superfields

 6.5 A technical annexe: other forms of chiral superfield

7 Vector (or gauge) supermultiplets

 7.1 The free Abelian gauge supermultiplet

 7.2 Non-Abelian gauge supermultiplets

 7.3 Combining chiral and gauge supermultiplets

8 The MSSM

 8.1 Specification of the superpotential

 8.2 The SM interactions in the MSSM

 8.3 Gauge coupling unification in the MSSM

 8.4 R-parity

9 SUSY breaking

 9.1 Breaking SUSY spontaneously

 9.2 Soft SUSY-breaking terms

 9.3 RGE evolution of the parameters in the (softly broken) MSSM

10 The Higgs sector and electroweak symmetry breaking in the MSSM

 10.1 The scalar potential and the conditions for electroweak symmetry breaking

 10.2 The tree-level masses of the scalar Higgs states in the MSSM

 10.3 The SM fine-tuning problem revisited, in the MSSM

 10.4 Tree-level couplings of neutral Higgs bosons to SM particles

11 Sparticle masses in the MSSM

 11.1 Gluinos

 11.2 Neutralinos

 11.3 Charginos

 11.4 Squarks and sleptons

12 Some simple tree-level calculations in the MSSM

 12.1 Sparticle decays

 12.2 Sparticle production processes

 12.3 Signatures and searches

 12.4 Benchmarks for SUSY searches

References

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