Weak-Scale Supersymmetry: Theory and Practice

TL;DR

This paper provides an introduction to weak-scale supersymmetry, covering theoretical foundations, model construction, supersymmetry breaking, and implications for future collider experiments.

Contribution

It offers a comprehensive overview of supersymmetry theory, including superfield techniques and minimal model construction, with insights into experimental prospects.

Findings

Constructed the minimal supersymmetric standard model using superfield methods.

Discussed soft supersymmetry breaking and its phenomenological implications.

Surveyed expectations for future collider experiments to detect supersymmetry.

Abstract

These lectures contain an introduction to the theory and practice of weak-scale supersymmetry. They begin with a discussion of the hierarchy problem and the motivation for weak-scale supersymmetry. They continue by developing the coset approach to superfields. They use superfield techniques to construct the minimal supersymmetric version of the standard model and to discuss soft supersymmetry breaking and its implications. The lectures end with a brief survey of expectations for future collider experiments.