Seminar on Supersymmetry Breaking
Organizers: M. Haack, P. Mayr, C. Römelsberger, I. Sachs, M. Zagermann
Time: Fridays at 9am (beginning on May 16)
Room: 318 (Theresienstr. 37)
Dates and topics:
- May 16 (Johannes Thürigen): Chiral multiplets, F-term breaking, O'Raifeartaigh models, goldstino, (chapters 5 and 8 of 2.; chapters 1.5 and 1.6 of 3.; 4.)
- June 6 (Andrei Constantin): Vector multiplets, D-term breaking, Fayet-Iliopoulos D-term, (chapters 6,7 and 8 of 2.; chapters 1.7 and 1.8 of 3.)
- June 20 (Nitin Rughoonauth): (MS)SM, (chapters 4 and 5 of 5.; 6.; chapter 4 of 10.)
- June 27 (Jin Kang): Supersymmetry breaking in the MSSM and soft breaking terms, (chapters 5 and 6 of 5.; 6.; sections 27.7 and 28.3 of 7.; chapter 5 of 10.)
- July 4 (Toshinao Loew): Gauge mediation, (chapter 28.6 of 7.; chapter 14.2.2 of 8., maybe 9.; chapter 8 of 10.)
Literature:
- Lykken: "Introduction to Supersymmetry", hep-th/9612114
- Wess, Bagger: "Supersymmetry and Supergravity", Princeton Series in Physics
- Argyres: "Introduction to Global Supersymmetry", 2001notes
- Intriligator, Seiberg: "Lectures on Supersymmetry Breaking", hep-ph/0702069
- Martin: "A Supersymmetry Primer", hep-ph/9709356
- Louis, Brunner, Huber: "The Supersymmetric Standard Model", hep-ph/9811341
- Weinberg: "The Quantum Theory of Fields (Volume III)", Cambridge University Press
- Dine: "Supersymmetry and String Theory", Cambridge University Press
- Giudice, Rattazi: "Theories with Gauge-Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking", Physics Reports 322 (1999), 419-499
- Luty: "2004 TASI lectures on supersymmetry breaking", hep-th/0509029