Course Term: Hilary
Course Weight: 1
Course Overview:
16 lectures
Area: PT
Link to homework submission:
TA: Andrea Boido's Class: https://cloud.maths.ox.ac.uk/index.php/s/WP8kazik5pNZjmi
TA Jospeh McGovern's Class: https://cloud.maths.ox.ac.uk/index.php/s/oBKgZcaE9F4bw3z
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 Federico Bonetti
Assessment Type:
Invigilated written examination in TT or no formal assessment; homework completion