The Supersymmetric World: The Beginnings of the Theory

by Kane, Gordon L.; Shifman, Mikhail A.

• ISBN13: 9789810245221
• ISBN10: 981024522X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUB CO INC

Summary

A text presenting a view of the process of supersymmetry, combining anecdotal descriptions and personal reminiscences with technical accounts of the pioneers in the field. Offers a historical look at supersymmetry for researchers and scholars in high energy physics, and historians of science. Hardcover, softcover also available.

Table of Contents

Foreword	v
G. L. Kane
M. Shifman
The Predecessors
Early Supersymmetry on the Prairie	2	(6)
P. Ramond
Thirty Years Ago	8	(3)
A. Neveu
Strings and the Advent of Supersymmetry: The View from Pasadena	11	(8)
J. Schwarz
Remembering the Early Times of Supersymmetry	19	(7)
J.-L. Gervais
Reminiscences	26	(8)
B. Sakita
Discovery of Supersymmetry in Four Dimensions
Notes of an Old Graduate Student	34	(8)
E. Likhtman
My Husband, My Love	42	(12)
N. Koretz-Golfand
Last Interview with D. V. Volkov	54	(9)
D. V. Volko
Nonlinear Way to Supersymmetry	63	(4)
V. Akulov
From Symmetry to Supersymmetry	67	(21)
J. Wess
Local Supersymmetry (Supergravity)
The Sources of Supergravity	88	(5)
V. A. Soroka
Supergravity and the Quest for a Unified Theory	93	(19)
S. Ferrara
The Pioneers
A Glimpse	112	(1)
J. Strathdee
Recollections of a Young Contributor	113	(7)
M. F. Sohnius
On Superpartners and the Origins of Supersymmetric Standard Model	120	(25)
P. Fayet
Supersymmetric Higgs Potentials	145	(5)
L. O'Raifeartaigh
The Supersymmetric Effective Potential	150	(8)
P. West
The Historical Perspective
Revealing the Path to the Superworld	158	(11)
M. S. Marinov
Notes on the Conceptual Development of Supersymmetry	169
R. Di Stefano