ABSTRACT

Supersymmetry (SUSY) is one of the most important ideas ever conceived in particle physics. It is a symmetry that relates known elementary particles of a certain spin to as yet undiscovered particles that differ by half a unit of that spin (known as Superparticles). Supersymmetric models now stand as the most promising candidates for a unified theory beyond the Standard Model (SM).

SUSY is an elegant and simple theory, but its existence lacks direct proof. Instead of dismissing supersymmetry altogether, Supersymmetry Beyond Minimality: from Theory to Experiment suggests that SUSY may exist in more complex and subtle manifestation than the minimal model.

The book explores in detail non-minimal SUSY models, in a bottom-up approach that interconnects experimental phenomena in the fermionic and bosonic sectors. The book considers with equal emphasis the Higgs and Superparticle sectors, and explains both collider and non-collider experiments. Uniquely, the book explores charge/parity and lepton flavour violation.

Supersymmetry Beyond Minimality: from Theory to Experiment provides an introduction to well-motivated examples of such non-minimal SUSY models, including the ingredients for generating neutrino masses and/or relaxing the tension with the heavily constraining Large Hadron Collider (LHC) data. Examples of these scenarios are explored in depth, in particular the discussions on Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric SM (NMSSM) and B-L Supersymmetric SM (BLSSM).

part I|99 pages

MSSM Construction

chapter 1|17 pages

Introduction to Supersymmetry

chapter 2|12 pages

SUSY Lagrangians

chapter 3|7 pages

Supersymmetry Breaking

chapter 4|16 pages

Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model

chapter 5|16 pages

MSSM Mass Spectrum and Interactions

chapter 6|27 pages

Higgs Bosons in the MSSM

part II|46 pages

Collider Phenomenology

chapter 8|11 pages

SUSY Higgs Prospects at the LHC

chapter 9|18 pages

Supersymmetric DM

part III|52 pages

SUSY CP and Flavour

chapter 10|17 pages

CP Violation in Supersymmetric Models

chapter 11|14 pages

SUSY CP Violation in K Mesons

chapter 12|18 pages

SUSY CP Violation in B Mesons

part IV|72 pages

MSSM Extensions

chapter 14|33 pages

Minimal Gauge Extensions of the MSSM

chapter 15|22 pages

Higgs Extensions

part V|42 pages

SUSY Breaking From Underlying Theory

chapter 16|10 pages

Gravity Mediation SUSY Breaking

chapter 17|8 pages

Gauge Mediation SUSY Breaking

chapter 18|22 pages

SUSY Breaking in String Theory