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Proseminar FS10
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A proseminar in Theoretical Physics coordinated by Prof. C. Anastasiou will be held in Spring 2010. The topic: "Supersymmetry" will cover subjects related to supersymmetry in quantum field theory from a theoretical and a phenomenological perspective.
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Date Talks |
Student | Supervisor |
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1) Supersymmetry algebra |
12/04/2010 |
Julien Guillod |
Stefan Hohenegger |
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2) Representations of the N=1 SUSY algebra |
12/04/2010 |
Tevong You |
Roberto Volpato |
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3) Superspace and superfields |
26/04/2010 |
Philipp Gruber |
Marco Panero |
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4) Supersymmetric Lagrangians |
26/04/2010 |
Julian Cancino |
Giuliano Panico |
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5) Supersymmetric Lagrangians with gauge symmetry |
03/05/2010 |
Christfried Focke |
Giuliano Panico |
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6) Supersymmetry breaking |
03/05/2010 |
Nikolaus Buchheim |
Daniel Persson |
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7) The MSSM |
10/05/2010 |
Martin Fluder |
Mathias Brucherseifer |
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8) SUSY Higgs mechanism |
10/05/2010 |
Manuel Benz |
Mathias Brucherseifer |
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9) SUSY in dimensions other than 4 |
17/05/2010 |
Simon von Overbeck |
Roberto Volpato |
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10) Supergravity |
17/05/2010 | Peter Reiter | Stefan Hohenegger |
Times and Location
The proseminar presentations will be held on Mondays in the room HIT F32. They will start at 10:15 am.
Suggested Literature
The discussion of the general aspects of supersymmetry can be found in several books and reviews. Here we give a short list of references in which the basic notions of supersymmetry are described together with some of the more advanced topics.
- J. Wess and J. Bagger, "Supersymmetry and supergravity".
- P. C. West, "Introduction to supersymmetry and supergravity".
- J. Terning, "Modern supersymmetry: Dynamics and duality".
- S. Weinberg, "The quantum theory of fields. Vol. 3: Supersymmetry".
- M. F. Sohnius, "Introducing Supersymmetry", Phys.Rept.128:39-204,1985.
- J. D. Lykken, "Introduction to supersymmetry", hep-th/9612114.
- S. P. Martin, "A Supersymmetry primer", hep-ph/9709356.
- A. Bilal, "Introduction to supersymmetry", hep-th/0101055.
Reports
The student reports for the proseminars can be found on the webpage
http://www.phys.ethz.ch/~babis/Teaching/SUSY_Proseminar_Reports/
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