APPLIED N=1 SUPERGRAVITY (THE ICTP SERIES IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS) - Hardcover

Nath, P; Arnowitt, R; Chamseddine, A H

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9971966484 ISBN 13: 9789971966485

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 1984

Synopsis

These lectures give an elementary introduction to the important recent developments of the applications of N=1 supergravity to the construction of unified models of elementary particle interactions. Topics covered include couplings of supergravity with matter, spontaneous symmetry breaking and the super-higgs effect, construction of supergravity unified models, and the phenomenon of SU(2) x U(1) electroweak-symmetry breaking by supergravity. Experimental consequences of N-1 supergravity unified theory, in particular, the possible supersymmetric decays of the W± and Z0 bosons, are also discussed. The treatment presented encompasses a broad class of models, both of the tree breaking as well as the radiative breaking of SU(2) x U(1). Rules of tensor calculus and the explicit construction of the Lagrangian of the Supergravity-matter couplings are given in the appendix.

Edition details

• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
• Publication date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9971966484
• ISBN 13: 9789971966485
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 116