Author : Shaaban Khalil
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,90 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781498756730
The book details non-minimal supersymmetry models, in a bottom-up approach that interconnects experimental phenomena in the fermionic and bosonic sectors. It considers with equal emphasis the Higgs and Superparticle sectors, and explains both collider and non-collider experiments, and, uniquely, charge/parity and lepton flavour violation.
Author : Ignatios Antoniadis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 17,22 MB
Release : 2014-08-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 3662441721
Supersymmetry (SUSY) is a new symmetry that relates bosons and fermions, which has strong support at both the mathematical and the physical level. This book offers a comprehensive review, following the development of SUSY from its very early days up to present. The order of the contributions should provide the reader with the historical development as well as the latest theoretical updates and interpretations, and experimental constraints from particle accelerators and dark matter searches. It is a great pleasure to bring together here contributions from authors who initiated or have contributed significantly to the development of this theory over so many years. To present a balanced point of view, the book also includes a closing contribution that attempts to describe the physics beyond the Standard Model in the absence of SUSY. The contributions to this book have been previously published in The European Physical Journal C - Particles and Fields.
Author : G. L. Kane
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 40,37 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789810235536
1. A supersymmetry primer / by Stephen P. Martin -- 2. Supersymmetry and particle physics: a roadmap of future directions / by Keith R. Dienes and Christopher Kolda -- 3. Soft supersymmetry-breaking terms from supergravity and superstring models / by A. Brignole, L.E. Ibáñez and C. Muñoz -- 4. Regularisation of supersymmetric theories / by I. Jack and D.R.T. Jones -- 5. Supersymmetry and string theory / by Michael Dine -- 6. Supersymmetric particle searches at LEP / by J.-F. Grivaz -- 7. The search for supersymmetry at the tevatron collider / by M. Carena ... [et al.] -- 8. Low-energy supersymmetry at future colliders / by John F. Gunion and Howard E. Haber -- 9. Supersymmetric event generation and the reach of colliders for supersymmetry / by Howard Baer and Steve Mrenna -- 10. Mass density of neutralino dark matter / by James D. Wells -- 11. Supersymmetry and inflation / by L. Randall -- 12. Z' physics and supersymmetry / by M. Cvetič and P. Langacker -- 13. Probing physics at short distances with supersymmetry / by Hitoshi Murayama -- 14. A Higgsino-LSP world / by G.L. Kane -- 15. Gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking / by G.F. Giudice and R. Rattazzi -- 16. Charge and color breaking / by J. Alberto Casas -- 17. Supersymmetric loop effects / by Piotr H. Chankowski and Stefan Pokorski -- 18. CP violation in low-energy SUSY / by A. Masiero and L. Silvestrini -- 19. Supergravity unified models / by R. Arnowitt and Pran Nath -- 20. An introduction to explicit R-parity violation / by Herbi Dreiner
Author : Nir Polonsky
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,93 MB
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642076312
The book is a fairly non-technical introduction to modern supersymmetry phenomenology, approaching the subject in new and unique ways. It is suitable both for theorists and experimentalists, and emphasizes an intuitive grasp of the subject. Theoretical and experimental motivations, and the status and prospects of low-energy supersymmetry are discussed. It is shown by explicit construction that the stabilization of any perturbative theory which contains fundamental scalar bosons naturally leads to the notion of supersymmetry. The minimal supersymmetric extension of the standard model is then pedagogically defined and its experimental status is summarized. Renormalization of the models, including unification, is discussed and the linkage between high and low energies is demonstrated, providing a potential probe of Planck-scale physics such as unified theories. Besides a host of other phenomena, Higgs physics is discussed and the Higgs mass is shown to provide a crucial test of nearly all supersymmetric theories.
Author : G. L. Kane
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 13,99 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Science
ISBN : 9814307483
This volume begins with an excellent pedagogical introduction to the physics and methods and formalism of supersymmetry which is accessible to anyone with a basic knowledge of the Standard Model of particle physics. Next is an overview of open questions, followed by chapters on topics such as how to detect superpartners and tools for studying them, the current limits on superpartner masses as we enter the LHC era, the lightest superpartner as a dark matter candidate in thermal and non-thermal cosmological histories, and associated Z'physics. Most chapters have been extended and updated from the earlier edition and some are new. --
Author : Béranger Dumont
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 34,39 MB
Release : 2016-09-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319449567
This work was nominated as an outstanding PhD thesis by the LPSC, Université Grenoble Alpes, France. The LHC Run 1 was a milestone in particle physics, leading to the discovery of the Higgs boson, the last missing piece of the so-called "Standard Model" (SM), and to important constraints on new physics, which challenge popular theories like weak-scale supersymmetry. This thesis provides a detailed account of the legacy of the LHC Run 1 ≤¥regarding these aspects. First, the SM and the need for its extension are presented in a concise yet revealing way. Subsequently, the impact of the LHC Higgs results on scenarios of new physics is assessed in detail, including a careful discussion of the relevant uncertainties. Two approaches are considered: generic modifications of the Higgs couplings, possibly arising from extended Higgs sectors or higher-dimensional operators; and tests of specific new physics models. Lastly, the implications of the null results of the searches for new physics are discussed with a particular focus on supersymmetric dark matter candidates. Here as well, two approaches are presented: the "simplified models" approach, and recasting by event simulation. This thesis stands out for its educational approach, its clear language and the depth of the physics discussion. The methods and tools presented offer readers essential practical tools for future research.
Author : Gordon Kane
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 14,26 MB
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 0465080464
The epic story of the quest to uncover a fully unified theory of physics, revised to reflect the possible discovery of the Higgs Boson.
Author : Marc Christopher Thomas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 48,54 MB
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319434527
This thesis studies collider phenomenology of physics beyond the Standard Model at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It also explores in detail advanced topics related to Higgs boson and supersymmetry – one of the most exciting and well-motivated streams in particle physics. In particular, it finds a very large enhancement of multiple Higgs boson production in vector-boson scattering when Higgs couplings to gauge bosons differ from those predicted by the Standard Model. The thesis demonstrates that due to the loss of unitarity, the very large enhancement for triple Higgs boson production takes place. This is a truly novel finding. The thesis also studies the effects of supersymmetric partners of top and bottom quarks on the Higgs production and decay at the LHC, pointing for the first time to non-universal alterations for two main production processes of the Higgs boson at the LHC–vector boson fusion and gluon–gluon fusion. Continuing the exploration of Higgs boson and supersymmetry at the LHC, the thesis extends existing experimental analysis and shows that for a single decay channel the mass of the top quark superpartner below 175 GeV can be completely excluded, which in turn excludes electroweak baryogenesis in the Minimal Supersymmetric Model. This is a major new finding for the HEP community. This thesis is very clearly written and the introduction and conclusions are accessible to a wide spectrum of readers.
Author : Rabindra N. Mohapatra
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 16,28 MB
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 1475719280
The theoretical understanding of elementary particle interactions has under gone a revolutionary change during the past one and a half decades. The spontaneously broken gauge theories, which in the 1970s emerged as a prime candidate for the description of electro-weak (as weIl as strong) interactions, have been confirmed by the discovery of neutral weak currents as weIl as the w- and Z-bosons. We now have a field theory of electro-weak interactions at energy scales below 100 GeV-the Glashow-Weinberg-Salam theory. It is a renormalizable theory which enables us to do calculations without en countering unnecessary divergences. The burning question now is: Wh at lies ahead at the next level of unification? As we head into the era of supercolliders and ultrahigh energy machines to answer this question, many ap, pealing possi bilities exist: left-right symmetry, technicolor, compositeness, grand unifica ti on, supersymmetry, supergravity, Kaluza-Klein models, and most recently superstrings that even unify gravity along with other interactions. Experi ments will decide if any one or any combination of these is to be relevant in the description of physics at the higher energies. As an outcome of our con fidence in the possible scenerios for elementary particle physics, we have seen our understanding of the early uni verse improve significantly.
Author : Sergio Ferrara
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 1371 pages
File Size : 36,29 MB
Release : 1987-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9814513539
These volumes, a collection of a series of articles with commentary notes by the editor, describe supersymmetric theories for particle interactions from the earliest developments to the latest advancements. The book, divided into two volumes, will mainly focus its attention on subjects related to the application of N = 1 supersymmetry and supergravity to unified theories, encompassing all fundamental forces of nature. Particular emphasis is given to the ultraviolet cancellations in supersymmetric field theories, naturalness and hierarchy of scales, spontaneous symmetry breaking, super-Higgs effect and its applications to high energy physics. Both perturbative and non-perturbative aspects of supersymmetric field theories are covered. Over a hundred seminar papers are reprinted in these volumes.
