Lagrangians that preserve supersymmetry

Particle Physics 3: Supersymmetry and Grand Unification (Spring, 2010)

Lecture Playlist

  1. Renormalization concepts, and dimensional analysis

  2. Fermions and bosons

  3. Propagators and renormalization of mass

  4. Symmetry and Grassmann numbers

  5. A first supersymmetric model

  6. Supersymmetry building blocks

  7. Lagrangians that preserve supersymmetry

  8. Generalizing supersymmetry to 3+1 spacetime, and QFT

  9. Supersymmetry breaking and an introduction to grand unified theories

  10. GUTs, the SU(5) representation, proton decay

May 18, 2010

This lecture develops the notion of a Supercharge, Q+ representing the transformation from a fermion to a boson and Q the transformation from a boson to a fermion.

Topics: 
  • Supercharge
  • The coordinate transform view of supercharges
  • Superfield
  • Chiral superfield