Advanced Topics in Theoretical Particle Physics

Groups

Time	Place	Tutor
Thursday, 13:15 - 15:00	Room 22, AVZ	Nana Geraldine Cabo Bizet & Fabian Ruehle

Exercise sheets

No	Exercise sheet
00	Massless and Massive Irreps of SUSY
01	Weyl Spinors and Grassmann variables
02	SUSY Algebra and Chiral Representations
03	Superpotential, Kählerpotential, WZ model
04	Vector Fields, Gauge Trafos, U(1) Model
05	SUSY Breaking and O'Raifearteigh model
06	D-Term SUSY Breaking
07	MSSM Superpotential
08	MSSM Higgs Sector, Running couplings
09	Super Yang-Mills, Threshold corrections
10	SUGRA, Polonyi Model, No-Scale Model
11	Extra Dimensions, EW Symmetry Breaking
Mock exam	Mock Exam

Requirements for final exam

In order to be admitted to the final exam the following requirements have to be met:

• Active participation in the tutorials
• Solutions to the exercises have to be presented at least twice in the tutorials
• Approx. 50% of the credits from all exercise sheets

Prerequesites

Theoretical Physics I, Basic Lectures in Mathematics, Group Theory

Contents

• Introduction to supersymmetry and supergravity
• Supersymmetric extension of the electroweak standard model
• Supersymmetric grand unification
• Theories of higher dimensional space-time
• Unification in extra dimensions

Literature

• J. Wess, J: Bagger: Supersymmetry and supergravity
  (Princeton University Press 1992)
• H. P. Nilles: Supersymmetry, Supergravity and Particle Physics
  (Physics Reports 110 C (1984) 1)
• D. Bailin, A. Love: Supersymmetric Gauge Field Theory and String Theory
  (IOP Publishing Ltd. 1994)
• M. F. Sohnius: Introducing supersymmtry
  (Phys.Res. 128 C (1985) 39)
• P. Freund: Introduction to Supersymmetry
  (Cambridge University Press 1995)