50 Years of SUSY and SUGRA, circa 1974-2024, and Future Prospects
Pran Nath

TL;DR
This paper reviews fifty years of developments in supersymmetry and supergravity, highlighting their theoretical progress, experimental searches, and implications for cosmology and fundamental physics from 1974 to 2024.
Contribution
It provides a comprehensive overview of the historical evolution, key breakthroughs, and future prospects of SUSY and SUGRA over five decades.
Findings
Significant progress in unification theories of fundamental interactions.
Ongoing experimental searches for supersymmetry at various scales.
Impact of SUSY and SUGRA on cosmology, dark matter, and dark energy theories.
Abstract
The development in the early seventies of supersymmetry, in the mid-seventies of gauge supersymmetry and supergravity, and in the early eighties of gravity mediated breaking of supersymmetry and of supergravity grand unification have led to remarkable progress in the pursuit of unification of fundamental interactions of particle physics. They have also led to the intertwining of particle physics, cosmology, and strings. Since supersymmetry and supergravity are manifest in the low energy limit of superstring below the Planck scale, experimental test of them are of interest regarding the validity of the superstring itself. For that reason, over the past decades, after the advent of supersymmetry and SUGRA models, there have been sustained experimental searches for supersymmetry at colliders, in precision experiments, and in astrophysical and cosmological data. The SUSY and SUGRA models…
Peer Reviews
No public reviews on file for this paper yet. If you reviewed it on a platform where reviews are public (OpenReview, ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML), you can paste yours below so the community can read it here.
Videos
No videos yet. Explain this paper in a talk, walkthrough, or lecture? Add one.
Taxonomy
TopicsParticle physics theoretical and experimental studies · International Science and Diplomacy · Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
