Table of Contents

1: The problems of the Standard Model
2: The singular role of supersymmetry
3: Basic supermultiplets
4: The supersymmetry algebra and its representations
5: The minimal supersymmetric model
6: Supergravity
7: Phenomenology of supersymmetric models: supersymmetry at the quantum level
8: Dynamical breaking. Duality.
9: Supersymmetric grand unification
10: An overview of string theory and string models
11: Supersymmetry and the early universe
12: The challenges of supersymmetry
A: A review of the Standard Model and of various notions of quantum field theory
B: Spinors
C: Superfields
D: An introduction to cosmology
E: Renormalization group equations

About the Author

Professor at Université Paris-Sud until 2002.
Chairman of the European Research Group (Euro-GDR) on Supersymmetry from 1997 to
2004.
Professor at Université Paris 7, "AstroParticule et cosmologie" (APC) laboratory, and
Director of APC laboratory since 2005.

Reviews

Binetruy provides an excellent bullet point summary of the problems that supersymmetry could solve. Mathematical Reviews, 2007 Binetruy has worked successfully at making his book pedagogically useful. He provides a roadmap of three paths through the book: one for researchers who want a theoretical introduction, a second for high-energy experimentalists, and the third for astrophysicists and cosmologists. The author often includes extra steps in derivations, which are helpful to a beginner or a reader coming from another field. He also provides useful hints to solving the exercises and includes a self-contained summary of basic notions of quantum field theory. His presentation of the general form of the supersymmetry soft-breaking Lagrangian is very pedagogical and physical. His 55 pages on string theory provide a good physical picture of compactifying to four dimensions and of phenomenological aspects of superstring theory. Physics Today ...the book [is] a treasure trove of information for teaching staff and students. Prof. Peter Zerwas, Physik Journal