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Applied N=1 Supergravity
Author(s): Ali Chamseddine (Author), Pran Nath (Author), R Arnowitt (Author)
- Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
- Publication Date: 1 July 1984
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 116 pages
- ISBN-10: 9971966484
- ISBN-13: 9789971966485
Book Description
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.
