Supersymmetry And The Unification Of Fundamental Interactions

This annual SUSY conference has become the world's largest international meeting devolted to new ideas in high energy physics. The main subject of the conference is theoretical and phenomenological aspects of supersymmetric theories, and dark matter and dark energy, and other comological connections. New, interesting results from various experimental groups are increasingly presented at the conference as well. With roughly 200 plenary and parallel presentations, SUSY08 will likely deliver energy and enthusiasm of both theorists and experimentalists who are searching the frontier of high energy physics.

This book addresses the theoretical, phenomenological and experimental aspects of supersymmetry in particle physics as well as its implications in cosmology. Contents:SUSY and Higgs Searches: Experimental Results:Chargino and Neutralino Searches at LEP (C Hensel)Higgs Searches at LEP (S Andringa)R-Parity Violation Searches at LEP (R Barbier)Searches for Charged Higgs Bosons (M Ellert)SUSY, Higgs and GUT Phenomenology:SUSY Phenomenology at the EW and the GUT Scales (G Altarelli)Revealing SUSY at Colliders (H Baer)Neutralino Dark Matter (S Scopel)Linear Collider Signals of Anomaly Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking (S Roy)SUSY Theory and SUSY QFT:Low Energy Supersymmetry in Warped Brane Worlds (Z Lalak)Effective Field Theories on the Branes with Spontaneously Broken Supersymmetry (D Sorokin)Soft Supersymmetry Breaking from Coset Space Dimensional Reduction (P Manousselis & G Zoupanos)Interacting Noncommutative Lumps (C Sochichiu)and other papers Readership: Graduate students, academics and researchers in accelerator, high-energy and theoretical physics. Keywords:Supersymmetry;Particle Physics;Cosmology;SUSY;Higgs Searches;GUT Phenomenology;Neutralino Dark Matter;Warped Brane

The recent high precision results from the LEP supercollider at CERN appear favorable for supergravity unification of the electroweak and the strong forces. The proceedings of the SUSY 93 Workshop focus on further precise predictions of unification which may be observed in the laboratory. In addition, the proceedings cover a wide range of other topics in supersymmetry, supergravity, particle physics, string theory and cosmology and their interconnections. They include both theoretical and experimental papers, hence presenting a complete and comprehensive picture of this important subject.

This book addresses the theoretical, phenomenological and experimental aspects of supersymmetry in particle physics as well as its implications in cosmology.

The theoretical understanding of elementary particle interactions has under gone a revolutionary change during the past one and a half decades. The spontaneously broken gauge theories, which in the 1970s emerged as a prime candidate for the description of electro-weak (as weIl as strong) interactions, have been confirmed by the discovery of neutral weak currents as weIl as the w- and Z-bosons. We now have a field theory of electro-weak interactions at energy scales below 100 GeV-the Glashow-Weinberg-Salam theory. It is a renormalizable theory which enables us to do calculations without en countering unnecessary divergences. The burning question now is: Wh at lies ahead at the next level of unification? As we head into the era of supercolliders and ultrahigh energy machines to answer this question, many ap, pealing possi bilities exist: left-right symmetry, technicolor, compositeness, grand unifica ti on, supersymmetry, supergravity, Kaluza-Klein models, and most recently superstrings that even unify gravity along with other interactions. Experi ments will decide if any one or any combination of these is to be relevant in the description of physics at the higher energies. As an outcome of our con fidence in the possible scenerios for elementary particle physics, we have seen our understanding of the early uni verse improve significantly.