Course Term: Hilary
Course Weight: 1
Course Overview:
16 lectures
Area: PT
Please submit your homework for Supersymmetry and Supergravity here, via the 'assigments' tab.
Course Syllabus:
Motivations for supersymmetry, spinors in various dimensions, supersymmetry algebras and representations,
supersymmetric quantum mechanics and the Witten index, superfields and superspace, SUSY field theories in 3+1 dimensions, non-renormalisation theorems, introduction to SUSY breaking, the MSSM and its phenomenology, basic properties of supergravity.
Lecturer(s):
Dr Cyril Closset
Assessment Type:
Invigilated written examination in TT or no formal assessment; homework completion