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Supersymmetry represents the culmination of the search for fundamental symmetries that has dominated particle physics for 50 years. Traditionally, the constituents of matter (fermions) were regarded as different from the particles (bosons) transmitting the forces between them. In supersymmetry, fermions and bosons are unified. Intended for graduate students in particle physics, and researchers in experimental and phenomenological supersymmetry, this textbook, first published in 2007, provides a simple introduction to a previously formidably technical field. Its elementary, practical treatment brings readers to the frontier of contemporary research, in particular the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider. Theories are constructed through an intuitive 'trial and error' approach. Basic elements of spinor formalism and superfields are introduced, allowing readers to access more advanced treatments. Emphasis is placed on physical understanding, and on detailed derivations of important steps. Many short exercises are included, making for a valuable and accessible self-study tool.

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"If you are a physics student with good knowledge of quantum field theory or an experimentalist working on high-energy physics, and need a quick reference on supersymmetry (SUSY) on which you can find the rationale behind it, in addition to the most useful cross-section formulae, then the book by Ian Aitchison is probably the best choice for you. If you have no idea about SUSY but want (or need) to learn its basics, again this is a very good choice. " Diego Casadei NYU and CERN

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Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Introduction and motivation	p. 1
The SM fine-tuning problem	p. 3
Three quantitative indications	p. 11
Theoretical considerations	p. 12
Spinors: Weyl, Dirac and Majorana	p. 16
Spinors and Lorentz transformations	p. 18
Constructing invariants and 4-vectors out of 2-component (Weyl) spinors	p. 21
A more streamlined notation for Weyl spinors	p. 25
Dirac spinors using [chi]- (or L-) type spinors only	p. 31
Majorana spinors	p. 33
Introduction to supersymmetry and the MSSM	p. 41
Simple supersymmetry	p. 41
A first glance at the MSSM	p. 47
The supersymmetry algebra and supermultiplets	p. 50
One way of obtaining the SU(2) algebra	p. 50
Supersymmetry generators ('charges') and their algebra	p. 53
The supersymmetry current	p. 58
Supermultiplets	p. 61
A snag, and the need for a significant complication	p. 65
The Wess-Zumino model	p. 70
Interactions and the superpotential	p. 70
Cancellation of quadratic divergences in the W-Z model	p. 77
Superfields	p. 88
SUSY transformations on fields	p. 88
A differential operator representation of the SUSY generators	p. 93
Chiral superfields, and their (chiral) component fields	p. 95
Products of chiral superfields	p. 97
A technical annexe: other forms of chiral superfield	p. 100
Vector (or gauge) supermultiplets	p. 106
The free Abelian gauge supermultiplet	p. 106
Non-Abelian gauge supermultiplets	p. 109
Combining chiral and gauge supermultiplets	p. 112
The MSSM	p. 120
Specification of the superpotential	p. 120
The SM interactions in the MSSM	p. 125
Gauge coupling unification in the MSSM	p. 129
R-parity	p. 135
SUSY breaking	p. 137
Breaking SUSY spontaneously	p. 137
Soft SUSY-breaking terms	p. 144
RGE evolution of the parameters in the (softly broken) MSSM	p. 149
The Higgs sector and electroweak symmetry breaking in the MSSM	p. 154
The scalar potential and the conditions for electroweak symmetry breaking	p. 154
The tree-level masses of the scalar Higgs states in the MSSM	p. 158
The SM fine-tuning problem revisited, in the MSSM	p. 164
Tree-level couplings of neutral Higgs bosons to SM particles	p. 166
Sparticle masses in the MSSM	p. 173
Gluinos	p. 173
Neutralinos	p. 174
Charginos	p. 177
Squarks and sleptons	p. 179
Some simple tree-level calculations in the MSSM	p. 185
Sparticle decays	p. 185
Sparticle production processes	p. 195
Signatures and searches	p. 208
Benchmarks for SUSY searches	p. 210
References	p. 214
Index	p. 219
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