TASI 2008 Lectures: Introduction to Supersymmetry and Supersymmetry Breaking

Abstract

These lectures, presented at TASI 08 school, provide an introduction to supersymmetry and supersymmetry breaking. We present basic formalism of supersymmetry, supersymmetric non-renormalization theorems, and summarize non-perturbative dynamics of supersymmetric QCD. We then turn to discussion of tree level, non-perturbative, and metastable supersymmetry breaking. We introduce Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model and discuss soft parameters in the Lagrangian. Finally we discuss several mechanisms for communicating the supersymmetry breaking between the hidden and visible sectors.

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• Two-component spinor techniques and Feynman rules for quantum field theory and supersymmetry
• General Gauge Mediation
• Gauge Mediation in Metastable Vacua
• Natural mu and Bmu in gauge mediation
• A hidden solution to the mu/B_mu problem in gauge mediation
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