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Book SynopsisThis textbook provides a comprehensive and pedagogical introduction to supersymmetry and other aspects of particle physics at the high-energy frontier. Aimed at graduate students and researchers, it also discusses concepts of physics beyond the Standard Model, including extended Higgs sectors, grand unification, and the origin of neutrino masses.
Table of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgements; Acronyms and abbreviations; Part I. Spin-1/2 Fermions in Quantum Field Theory, the Standard Model, and Beyond: 1. Two-component formalism for spin-1/2 fermions; 2. Feynman rules for spin-1/2 fermions; 3. From two-component to four-component spinors; 4. Gauge theories and the standard model; 5. Anomalies; 6. Extending the standard model; Part II. Constructing Supersymmetric Theories: 7. Introduction to supersymmetry; 8. Supersymmetric Lagrangians; 9. The supersymmetric algebra; 10. Superfields; 11. Radiative corrections in supersymmetry; 12. Spontaneous supersymmetry breaking; Part III. Realistic Supersymmetric Models: 13. The Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model; 14. Realizations of supersymmetry breaking; 15. Supersymmetric phenomenology; 16. Beyond the MSSM; Part IV. Sample Calculations in the Standard Model and Its Supersymmetric Extension: 17. Practical calculations involving two-component fermions; 18. Tree-level supersymmetric processes; 19. One-loop calculations; Part V. The Appendices: Appendix A. Notations and conventions; Appendix B. Compendium of sigma matrix and Fierz identities; Appendix C. Behavior of fermion bilinears under C, P, T; Appendix D. Kinematics and phase space; Appendix E. The spin-1/2 and spin-1 wave functions; Appendix F. The spinor helicity method; Appendix G. Matrix decompositions for fermion mass diagonalization; Appendix H. Lie group and algebra techniques for gauge theories; Appendix I. Interaction vertices of the SM and its seesaw extension; Appendix J. MSSM and RPV fermion interaction vertices; Appendix K. Integrals arising in one-loop calculations; Bibliography; References; Index.
