Course Term: Hilary
Course Weight: 1
Course Overview:
16 lectures
Area: PT
Please submit your homework for Supersymmetry and Supergravity here, via the 'assignments' tab.
Visiting and Short Option Students Only: Please e-mail your work to your TA/Tutor by the required deadline, copying in mmathphys@maths.ox.ac.uk
Course Syllabus:
Motivations for supersymmetry, supersymmetric QM and the Witten index, spinors in various dimensions, supersymmetry algebras and representations, superfields and superspace, SUSY field theories in 3+1 dimensions, non-renormalisation theorems, SUSY breaking, the MSSM and its phenomenology, brief introduction to supergravity
Lecturer(s):
Dr Cyril Closset
Assessment Type:
Invigilated written examination in TT or no formal assessment; homework completion