Introduction to Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model

Abstract

These lectures are devised as an introduction to the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. In the course of these lectures, we will introduce the basic features of the Supersymmetric Standard Model, the particle spectrum, the structure of the lagrangian, feynman rules, supersymmetry breaking soft terms, Electroweak symmetry breaking and the mass spectrum of the MSSM. Super-symmetry is a vast subject and these lectures are definitely not a comprehensive review and in fact, they are also not what one could term as an introduction to supersymmetric algebra and supersymmetric gauge theories. The prerequisites for this course are a good knowledge of the Standard Model and also supersymmetry say, at the level of first eight chapters of Wess and Bagger [1]: supersymmetry transformations, representations, superfields, supersymmetric gauge theories and elements of supersymmetry breaking. It is strongly recommended that SERC school students keep the course of Romesh Kaul with them all the time for consulting, while going through this course.