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ICTP Lecture Series in Theoretical Physics Lectures
APPLIED N=1 SUPERGRAVITY
(Volume 1)
by P Nath, R Arnowitt & A H Chamseddine (Northeastern)
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) × 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) × U(1). Rules of tensor calculus and the explicit construction of the Lagrangian of the Supergravity-matter couplings are given in the appendix.
Readership: Theoretical physicists and mathematicians.
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Pub. date: Jul 1984 |
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