The Superseminar

General Information and Schedule

The Superseminar is a 5 p (7.5 hp) course on Supersymmetry and its possible exploration at collider experiments aimed primarily at graduate students in elementary particle physics or closely related fields. Others who share an interest in Supersymmetry and its phenomenology are of course also welcome. The course is planned to begin mid-January 2008 and last for one full semester. The total number of meetings anticipated is of the order 15-20 (approx. once per week).

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Date	Time	Location	Type	Topic	Responsible
10/1	13-15	12167	Lecture	SUSY Fundamentals I	Ulf L
22/1	13-15	73121	Lecture	SUSY Fundamentals II	Ulf L
24/1	13-15	73121	Lecture	SUSY Fundamentals III	Ulf L
29/1	13-15	12167	Discussion + questions	Chapter 1 and 2	Johan R
5/2	13-15	73121	Follow-up + problems	Chapter 1 and 2	Johan R
12/2	13-15	11167	Discussion + questions	Chapter 3	Johan R
26/2	13-15	12167	Follow-up + problems	Chapter 3	Johan R
4/3	13-15	11167	Discussion + questions	Chapter 5.1-5.4 and 5.6	Johan R
18/3	13-15	12167	Follow-up + problems	Chapter 5.1-5.4 and 5.6	Johan R
19/3	13-15	12167	Lecture	New ideas on SUSY breaking	Johan Alwall
1/4	13-15	12167	Discussion + questions	Chapter 6.1-6.8	Johan R
17/4	13-15	11167	Follow-up + problems	Chapter 6.1-6.8	Johan R
22/4	13-15	12167	Discussion + questions	Chapter 7.1-7.4	Johan R
29/4	13-15	11167	Follow-up + problems	Chapter 7.1-7.4	Johan R
6/5	13-15	12167	Discussion + questions	Chapter 7.5-7.7, 12.1
14/5	10-12	12167	Follow-up + problems	Chapter 7.5-7.7, 12.1
15/5	13-15	12167	Lecture	SUSY GUTs	Juergen Reuter
20/5	13-15	12167	Discussion + questions	Chapter 9
27/5	13-15	12167	Follow-up + problems	Chapter 9
3/6	13-15	12167	Discussion + questions	Chapter 5.5, 12.2
10/6	13-15	12167	Follow-up + problems	Chapter 5.5, 12.2

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Format

About one third of the time will be devoted to traditional lectures, one third to discussion seminars (with required reading), and one third to the discussion of problems (which are solved by the participants). Active participation in all these elements will be required to pass the course.

Participants

Johan Rathsman
Ulf Lindström
Nazila Mahmoudi
Gunnar Ingelman
Oscar Stål
Elias Coniavitis
David Eriksson
Martin Flechl
David Kärsmyr
Joel Ekstrand
Olof Ohlsson Sax
Malin Göteman
Johan Källén
Ulla Tengblad
Tim Stefaniak
Arnaud Ferrari
Erik Thomé

Topics

Topics to be covered in the general Superseminars include the following:

• Basics of Supersymmetry, mathematical foundation
• SUSY algebra and representations
• Constructing the MSSM
• Local Supersymmetry, Supergravity
• Mechanisms of SUSY breaking
• MSSM phenomenology
• Grand unification
• Challenges of Supersymmetry - the flavour problem
• Relation to Dark Matter and Cosmology

Time permitting, there could also be detours into more advanced SUSY-topics of particular interest to the participants.

Literature

Since a large part of the Superseminar will be in the form of self-studies, it is required that all participants have access to the same literature. The main textbook from which the reading material will be selected is:

• P.M.R. Binetruy, Supersymmetry, 2006 (ISBN 0198509545)
  NB: There exists an older version of this book in paperback. This is not the version that will be used. Even if the information at some internet bookstores seem to think they are equivalent, they are in fact not. Make sure you get the 2006 version (hardcover).

As side-literature, any of the following books can be recommended:

• X. Tata, H. Baer, Weak Scale Supersymmetry
• S. Weinberg, The Quantum Theory of Fields, vol. 3

There are also some lecture notes available on the web:

• "Introduction to Supersymmetry", I. Aitchison, lecture notes, http://www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/users/IanAitchison/susy.pdf
• "Supersymmetry", G. Weiglein, http://www.cpt.dur.ac.uk/~georg/ss/ss.htm

Here are links to some articles that may be usefull to read:

• "Naturally Speaking: The Naturalness Criterion and Physics at the LHC", G.F. Giudice, http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.2562
• "Dynamical Supersymmetry Breaking---Why and How", Erich Poppitz, http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9710274
• "R-parity violating supersymmetry", http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0406039

Here are more links to some articles that were suggested by Johan Alwall:

• "A supersymmetry primer: Dynamical Supersymmetry Breaking - Why and How", S. Martin, http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9709356
• "Extra dimensions and gaugino mediation", JHEP01(2000)003
• "N=2-inspired models", JHEP08(2002)035
• "R-symmetric flavor violating model", http://arxiv.org/abs/0712.2039
• "TeV-scale Mirage mediation", Phys.Rev.D75, 095012 (2007)
• "Split SUSY", JHEP06(2005)073
• "Renormalization effects on scalar masses from strongly coupled hidden sector", JHEP 0702:027,2007

Here is a link to the lecture by Juergen Reuter:

Questions

Please contact Johan Rathsman, Johan.Rathsman[at]physics.uu.se, 018-4713049