Supersymmetry Phenomenology

In General > s.a. dark matter; particle types; susy field theories.
* Expectation and bounds: From LEP, m_s > 100 GeV, and the expectation is that m_s > m_Z.
* 1996: For most theorists it is there, in some form, at some energies; Claim by CDF of ee event that must be explained by susy – went away.
* 2000: The energy required to produce sparticles should not be much higher than that of present accelerators.
* 2001: Anomalous magnetic moment reported by BNL experiment – went away; Despite the absence of any experimental evidence, it is considered by many physicists as 'about to be discovered'.
* 2002: New lower bound of 195 GeV on gluino mass.
* 2004: Indirect hints from experiment point toward a supersymmetry breaking scale just above the electroweak scale (successful prediction of gauge coupling unification, observed value of the top quark mass just below the supersymmetric fixed point value, observed pattern of electroweak symmetry breaking, absence of large corrections to precision measurements in the electroweak sector, and b-quark–-lepton unification); If correct, sparticles may be discovered at the Tevatron Run II at Fermilab, but almost certainly at the LHC at CERN starting in 2007, and then we should be able to either confirm or (fapp) rule out susy; A number of interesting processes will be probed once superpartners are discovered, including the existence of a fermionic Goldstone particle associated with spontaneous supersymmetry breaking, and supersymmetric flavor violation, which should provide insights into the underlying mechanism of supersymmetry breaking.

From Supergravity > s.a. black holes; supergravity.
* Consequences: If one does not want extra gravitons, the maximum spacetime dimension is 11; Long range gravitational forces are not affected, only the short range ones; The graviton, quarks and other particles acquire a superpartner.
@ Cosmology: Barrau & Ponthieu PRD(04) [gravitino production and cmb].

References > s.a. matter and gravitation [couplings]; susy in field theory [including breaking].
@ General: Olive hp/99-ln [constraints]; Witten IJMPA(04) [rev]; Ramsey-Musolf & Su PRP(08) [low-energy precision tests]; Gaillard & Zumino a0805 [history, and string theory].
@ Cosmology: Riotto NPB(98) [inflation and susy breaking]; Feng hp/04-ln, AP(05) [rev].
@ HEP: Zumino PRP(84) [N = 1 susy and supergravity]; news pn(96)apr [CDF event]; Khalil CP(03) [search at LHC]; Ellis et al PLB(04)hp [detection prospects].
@ Lorentz symmetry violation: Berger & Kostelecky PRD(02)ht/01; Groot Nibbelink & Pospelov PRL(05); Jain & Ralston PLB(05)hp [suppression].
@ Related topics: Witten IJMPA(95) [different masses without susy breaking].

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