WUE-ITP-2002-038(rev), TTP02-42(rev), hep-th/0212224(rev) Clockwork SUSY: Supersymmetric Ward and Slavnov- Taylor Identities At Work in Green’s Functions and Scattering Amplitudes

We study the cancellations among Feynman diagrams that implement the Ward and SlavnovTaylor identities corresponding to the conserved supersymmetry current in supersymmetric quantum field theories. In particular, we show that the Faddeev-Popov ghosts of gaugeand supersymmetries never decouple from the physical fields, even for abelian gauge groups. The supersymmetric Slavnov-Taylor identities provide efficient consistency checks for automatized calculations and can verify the supersymmetry of Feynman rules and the numerical stability of phenomenological predictions simultaneously. PACS. 11.30.-j Symmetry and conservation laws – 11.30.Pb Supersymmetry – 11.15.-q Gauge field theories – 11.15.Bt General properties of perturbation theory