Patrick Labelle

Supersymmetry Demystified

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Produktbeschreibung

Untangle the complexities of supersymmetry
Trying to understand supersymmetry but find your brain spinning out of control? Supersymmetry Demystified is your solution!
The Demystified format is the perfect way to clarify the incredibly complex topic of supersymmetry--a key tool in most cutting-edge research in particle physics, including superstring theory. The book uses a unique, intuitive approach to introduce difficult concepts, building on them as the chapters progress. Hundreds of worked equations and examples make it easy to understand the material, and end-of-chapter quizzes and a final exam reinforce learning.

Produktdetails

• Demystified
• Verlag: McGraw-Hill Professional
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 191mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 728g
• ISBN-13: 9780071636414
• ISBN-10: 0071636412
• Artikelnr.: 27063524

Autorenporträt

Patrick Labelle has a PhD in theoretical physics from Cornell University and held a postdoctoral position for two years at McGill University. He has been teaching physics at the college level for twelve years at Bishop's University and Champlain Regional College in Sherbrooke, Quebec. Dr. Labelle spent summers doing research both at the Centre Européen de Recherches Nucléaires (CERN) in Geneva, home of the Large Hadron Collider, and at Fermilab, the world's second largest particle accelerator near Chicago. He has published a dozen papers in particle physics and has participated in the French translation of Brian Greene's The Elegant Universe (in the role of technical adviser).

Inhaltsangabe

From the contents:
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. A Crash Course on Weyl Spinors
Chapter 3. New Notation for the Components of Weyl Spinors
Chapter 4. The Physics of Weyl, Majorana, and Dirac Spinors
Chapter 5. Building the Simplest Supersymmetric Lagrangian
Chapter 6. The Supersymmetric Charges and Their Algebra
Chapter 7. Applications of the SUSY Algebra
Chapter 8. Adding Interactions: The Wess-Zumino Model
Chapter 9. Some Explicit Calculations
Chapter 10. Supersymmetric Gauge Theories
Chapter 11. Superspace Formalism
Chapter 12. Left-Chiral Superfields
Chapter 13. Supersymmetric Gauge Field Theories in the Superfield Approach
Chapter 14. SUSY Breaking
Chapter 15. Introduction to the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model
Chapter 16. Some Phenomenological Implications of the MSSM
Final Exam
Appendix A. Useful Identities
Appendix B. Solutions to Exercises
Appendix C. Solutions to Quizzes
Appendix D. Solutions to Final Exam
Index