Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics

SUPERSYMMETRY IN PARTICLE PHYSICS An Elementary Introduction

Introduction to Particle Physics

Supersymmetry in Elementary Particle Physics

These lectures give a general introduction to supersymmetry, emphasizing its application to models of elementary particle physics at the 100 GeV energy scale. I discuss the following topics: the construction of supersymmetric Lagrangians with scalars, fermions, and gauge bosons, the structure and mass spectrum of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM), the measurement of the parameter...

Elementary particle physics: The origins

I. The Mists of Scotland S25 II. ‘‘Cosmic Rays Go Downward, Dr. Anderson’’ S25 III. On Making a Particle Take a Photograph of Itself S26 IV. The Slow Discovery of the Mesotron S27 V. The Mesotron is Not the Yukon S28 VI. ‘‘Even a Theoretician Might be Able To Do It’’ S28 VII. The Reservoir of Ideas Runneth Over S29 VIII. ‘‘There is No Excellent Beauty That Hath Not Some Strangeness in the Propo...

Introduction to Statistical Issues in Particle Physics

Particle Physics emerged as a discipline in its own right half a century ago. It pioneered ‘big science’; experiments are performed at accelerators of increasing energy and complexity by collaborations of many physicists from many institutes. It has evolved a research methodology within which statistics is of great importance, although it has done so without strong links to the statistics commu...