| Applied N=1 Supergravity Contributor(s): Chamseddine, Ali (Author), Nath, Pran (Author), Arnowitt, R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 9971966484 ISBN-13: 9789971966485 Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company OUR PRICE: $53.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 1984 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Physics - Nuclear - Mathematics |
| Dewey: 539.72 |
| LCCN: 85148443 |
| Series: The Ictp Theoretical Physics |
| Physical Information: 116 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |