Applied N=1 Supergravity (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789971966485)

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.

Author: Ali Chamseddine,Pran Nath,R. Arnowitt
ISBN-10: 9971966484
ISBN-13: 9789971966485
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 07/01/1984
Pages: 116
Format: Hardcover