Modern supersymmetry : dynamics and duality / John Terning.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Terning, John, 1962-

Contributor:

Carl Hering Fund.

Series:

International series of monographs on physics (Oxford, England)

International series of monographs on physics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Supersymmetry.

Physical Description:

xiii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Contents:

1.1 The unreasonable effectiveness of the Standard Model 1

1.2 SUSY algebra 4

1.3 SUSY representations 8

1.4 Extended SUSY 11

1.5 Central charges 15

2 SUSY Lagrangians 19

2.1 The free Wess-Zumino model 19

2.2 Commutators of SUSY transformations 21

2.3 The supercurrent and the SUSY algebra 24

2.4 The interacting Wess-Zumino model 26

2.5 SUSY Yang-Mills 29

2.6 SUSY gauge theories 30

2.7 Superspace 34

2.8 N = 0 SUSY 38

3 SUSY gauge theories 43

3.1 Symmetries and group theory 43

3.2 Renormalization group 47

3.3 Quadratic divergence of the squark mass 52

3.4 Flat directions (classical moduli space) 53

3.5 The super Higgs mechanism 56

4 The minimal supersymmetric standard model 62

4.1 Particles, sparticles, and their interactions 62

4.2 Electroweak symmetry breaking 67

4.3 The sparticle spectrum 72

4.4 Gauge coupling unification 77

4.5 Radiative electroweak symmetry breaking 78

4.6 One-loop correction to the Higgs mass 79

4.7 Precision electroweak measurements 81

4.8 Problems with flavor and CP 82

5 SUSY breaking and the MSSM 90

5.1 Spontaneous SUSY breaking at tree-level 90

5.2 SUSY breaking scenarios 93

5.3 The goldstino 95

5.4 The goldstino theorem 97

6 Gauge mediation 101

6.1 Messengers of SUSY breaking 101

6.2 RG calculation of soft masses 102

6.3 Gauge mediation and the [Mu] problem 105

7 Nonperturbative results 108

7.1 Monopoles 108

7.2 Anomalies in the path integral 113

7.3 Gauge anomalies 117

7.4 't Hooft's anomaly matching 118

7.5 Instantons 119

7.6 Instantons in broken gauge theories 121

7.7 NSVZ exact [beta] function 123

7.8 Superconformal symmetry 125

8 Holomorphy 133

8.1 Non-renormalization theorems 133

8.2 Wavefunction renormalization 134

8.3 Integrating out 135

8.4 The holomorphic gauge coupling 136

8.5 Gaugino condensation 139

8.6 NSVZ revisited 141

9 The Affleck-Dine-Seiberg superpotential 145

9.1 Symmetry and holomorphy 145

9.2 Consistency of W[subscript ADS]: moduli space 148

9.3 Consistency of W[subscript ADS]: mass perturbations 150

9.4 Generating W[subscript ADS] from instantons 152

9.5 Generating W[subscript ADS] from gaugino condensation 154

9.6 Vacuum structure 155

10 Seiberg duality for SUSY QCD 157

10.1 Phases of gauge theories 157

10.2 The moduli space for F [greater than or equal] N 158

10.3 IR fixed points 160

10.4 Duality 162

10.5 Integrating out a flavor 165

10.6 Consistency 167

10.7 F = N: confinement with chiral symmetry breaking 168

10.8 F = N: consistency checks 171

10.9 F = N + 1: s-confinement 173

10.10 Connection to theories with F > N + 1 176

11 More Seiberg duality 182

11.1 The SO(N) moduli space 182

11.2 Duality for SO(N) 184

11.3 Some special cases 186

11.4 Duality for Sp(2N) 187

11.5 Why chiral gauge theories are interesting 189

11.6 S-Confinement 190

11.7 Deconfinement 192

12 Dynamical SUSY breaking 196

12.1 A rule of thumb for SUSY breaking 196

12.2 The 3-2 model 196

12.3 The SU(5) model 199

12.4 SUSY breaking and deformed moduli spaces 200

12.5 SUSY breaking from baryon runaways 202

12.6 Direct gauge mediation 205

12.7 Single sector models 207

13 The Seiberg-Witten theory 210

13.1 The Coulomb phase of N = 1 SO(N) 210

13.2 Diversion on SO(3) 214

13.3 The dyonic dual 215

13.4 Elliptic curves 217

13.5 N = 2: Seiberg-Witten 221

13.6 The Seiberg-Witten curve 225

13.7 Adding flavors 230

14 Superconformal field theories 233

14.1 A-Maximization 233

14.2 The simplest chiral SCFT 234

14.3 N = 2 and Argyres-Douglas points 239

14.4 N = 4 and orbifolds 240

15 Supergravity 246

15.1 Supergravity: on-shell 246

15.2 Supergravity: off-shell 247

15.3 Coupling to matter 249

15.4 10 and 11 dimensions 251

15.5 Five dimensions 258

16 Anomaly and gaugino mediation 262

16.1 "Supergravity" mediation 262

16.2 SUSY breaking 265

16.3 The [Mu] problem 267

16.4 Slepton masses 269

16.5 Gaugino mediation 272

17.1 D-brane constructions of gauge theories 275

17.2 The supergravity approximation 280

17.3 Spectra of CFT operators and AdS[subscript 5] x S[superscript 5] KK modes 285

17.4 Waves on AdS[subscript 5] 287

17.5 Nonperturbative static Coulomb potential 289

17.6 Breaking SUSY: finite temperature and confinement 290

17.7 The glueball mass gap 291

17.8 Breaking SUSY: orbifolds 294

17.9 Outlook 296

A Spinors and Pauli matrices 301

A.2 Fierz and Pauli identities 303

A.3 Propagators 303

B Group theory 305

B.1 Classical Lie groups 305

B.2 SU(2) 307

B.3 SU(3) 307

B.4 SU(4) 308.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Carl Hering Fund.

ISBN:

0198567634

OCLC:

62132300

Publisher Number:

9780198567639