TASI 2008 Lectures: Introduction to Supersymmetry and Supersymmetry Breaking
Yuri Shirman
TL;DR
This lecture provides an overview of supersymmetry, its breaking mechanisms, and their implications for particle physics, including the MSSM and communication of supersymmetry breaking.
Contribution
It offers a comprehensive introduction to supersymmetry formalism, non-perturbative dynamics, and various supersymmetry breaking mechanisms, including metastable states.
Findings
Summary of supersymmetric non-renormalization theorems
Discussion of non-perturbative dynamics in supersymmetric QCD
Overview of mechanisms for communicating supersymmetry breaking
Abstract
These lectures, presented at TASI 08 school, provide an introduction to supersymmetry and supersymmetry breaking. We present basic formalism of supersymmetry, supersymmetric non-renormalization theorems, and summarize non-perturbative dynamics of supersymmetric QCD. We then turn to discussion of tree level, non-perturbative, and metastable supersymmetry breaking. We introduce Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model and discuss soft parameters in the Lagrangian. Finally we discuss several mechanisms for communicating the supersymmetry breaking between the hidden and visible sectors.
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