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:
  1. 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.)
  2. 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.)
  3. June 20 (Nitin Rughoonauth): (MS)SM, (chapters 4 and 5 of 5.; 6.; chapter 4 of 10.) 
  4. 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.) 
  5. July 4 (Toshinao Loew): Gauge mediation, (chapter 28.6 of 7.; chapter 14.2.2 of 8., maybe 9.; chapter 8 of 10.)
Literature:
  1. Lykken: "Introduction to Supersymmetry", hep-th/9612114
  2. Wess, Bagger: "Supersymmetry and Supergravity", Princeton Series in Physics
  3. Argyres: "Introduction to Global Supersymmetry", 2001notes
  4. Intriligator, Seiberg: "Lectures on Supersymmetry Breaking", hep-ph/0702069
  5. Martin: "A Supersymmetry Primer", hep-ph/9709356
  6. Louis, Brunner, Huber: "The Supersymmetric Standard Model", hep-ph/9811341
  7. Weinberg: "The Quantum Theory of Fields (Volume III)", Cambridge University Press
  8. Dine: "Supersymmetry and String Theory", Cambridge University Press
  9. Giudice, Rattazi: "Theories with Gauge-Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking", Physics Reports 322 (1999), 419-499
  10. Luty: "2004 TASI lectures on supersymmetry breaking", hep-th/0509029