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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction and motivation | |
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| The SM fine-tuning problem | |
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| Three quantitative indications | |
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| Theoretical considerations | |
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| Spinors: Weyl, Dirac and Majorana | |
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| Spinors and Lorentz transformations | |
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| Constructing invariants and 4-vectors out of 2-component (Weyl) spinors | |
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| A more streamlined notation for Weyl spinors | |
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| Dirac spinors using [chi]- (or L-) type spinors only | |
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| Majorana spinors | |
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| Introduction to supersymmetry and the MSSM | |
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| Simple supersymmetry | |
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| A first glance at the MSSM | |
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| The supersymmetry algebra and supermultiplets | |
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| One way of obtaining the SU(2) algebra | |
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| Supersymmetry generators ('charges') and their algebra | |
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| The supersymmetry current | |
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| Supermultiplets | |
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| A snag, and the need for a significant complication | |
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| The Wess-Zumino model | |
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| Interactions and the superpotential | |
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| Cancellation of quadratic divergences in the W-Z model | |
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| Superfields | |
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| SUSY transformations on fields | |
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| A differential operator representation of the SUSY generators | |
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| Chiral superfields, and their (chiral) component fields | |
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| Products of chiral superfields | |
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| A technical annexe: other forms of chiral superfield | |
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| Vector (or gauge) supermultiplets | |
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| The free Abelian gauge supermultiplet | |
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| Non-Abelian gauge supermultiplets | |
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| Combining chiral and gauge supermultiplets | |
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| The MSSM | |
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| Specification of the superpotential | |
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| The SM interactions in the MSSM | |
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| Gauge coupling unification in the MSSM | |
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| R-parity | |
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| SUSY breaking | |
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| Breaking SUSY spontaneously | |
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| Soft SUSY-breaking terms | |
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| RGE evolution of the parameters in the (softly broken) MSSM | |
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| The Higgs sector and electroweak symmetry breaking in the MSSM | |
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| The scalar potential and the conditions for electroweak symmetry breaking | |
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| The tree-level masses of the scalar Higgs states in the MSSM | |
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| The SM fine-tuning problem revisited, in the MSSM | |
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| Tree-level couplings of neutral Higgs bosons to SM particles | |
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| Sparticle masses in the MSSM | |
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| Gluinos | |
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| Neutralinos | |
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| Charginos | |
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| Squarks and sleptons | |
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| Some simple tree-level calculations in the MSSM | |
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| Sparticle decays | |
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| Sparticle production processes | |
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| Signatures and searches | |
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| Benchmarks for SUSY searches | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |