Applied N=1 Supergravity

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) x 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) x U(1). Rules of tensor calculus and the explicit construction of the Lagrangian of the Supergravity-matter couplings are given in the appendix.

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• Authors: R. Arnowitt, Richard Arnowitt, Ali Chamseddine, Pran Nath
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.1984
• EAN: 9789971966492
• ISBN: 978-9971-966-49-2
• No. of pages: 116
• Series: Series on Advances in Statisti; The Ictp Series In Theoretical Physics; The Ictp Series In Theoretical Physics; Series on Advances in Statisti; The Ictp Theoretical Physics
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Atomic physics, nuclear physics