Supersymmetry and Supergravity: Phenomenology and Grand Unification

TL;DR

This paper provides a comprehensive survey of supersymmetry and supergravity, covering their theoretical foundations, phenomenological implications, and connections to grand unification, including key models, symmetry breaking mechanisms, and experimental constraints.

Contribution

It offers an accessible overview of supersymmetry and supergravity phenomenology, summarizing essential models and results for researchers entering the field.

Findings

Overview of minimal supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) phenomenology

Discussion of supersymmetry breaking mechanisms in supergravity models

Predictions related to proton decay and cosmological constraints

Abstract

A survey is given of supersymmetry and supergravity and their phenomenology. Some of the topics discussed are the basic ideas of global supersymmetry, the minimal supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) and its phenomenology, the basic ideas of local supersymmetry (supergravity), grand unification, supersymmetry breaking in supergravity grand unified models, radiative breaking of $SU(2) \times U(1)$, proton decay, cosmological constraints, and predictions of supergravity grand unified models. While the number of detailed derivations are necessarily limited, a sufficient number of results are given so that a reader can get a working knowledge of this field.