Path Integral for Off-Shell Supersymmetry

TL;DR

This paper formulates off-shell supersymmetry using the path-integral approach, providing a new perspective on how sparticles can be restricted to off-shell states without introducing new interactions.

Contribution

It introduces a path-integral formulation of off-shell supersymmetry, expanding the theoretical framework beyond previous generalized quantization methods.

Findings

Provides a new path-integral formulation for off-shell supersymmetry

Shows how off-shell supersymmetry can be realized without new interactions

Potential implications for evading sparticle detection bounds

Abstract

Off-shell supersymmetry, which restricts sparticles to appear only off-shell, solves the gauge hierarchy problem and unifies the gauge couplings in the usual way. Without introducing any new interactions or exacerbating the naturalness, this idea has been proposed to evade the direct detection bounds on sparticles. The original realization of off-shell supersymmetry relies on applying a generalized quantization scheme solely to sparticles. In this paper, we formulate off-shell supersymmetry from the path-integral approach.