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Supersymmetry, Particle Physics and Gravitation

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Book cover Unification of the Fundamental Particle Interactions

Part of the book series: Ettore Majorana International Science Series ((EMISS,volume 7))

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Supersymmetry is a beautiful symmetry between bosons and fermions, although there is no evidence of it in Nature1. This does not mean that supersymmetry is not present, but that it must be well hidden. Super symmetric theories of weak, electromagnetic and strong interactions involve new particles such as heavy bosonic leptons and quarks, and fermionic partners for the photon and gluons2. They have a new, and very rich, phenomenology3–5. Super- symmetry also provides a natural framework for the introduction of gravity due to its close connection with the geometry of space-time6, and a possible link between interactions of gravitational and weak types due to a massive spin-3/2 particle, the gravitino4,7. (For earlier review articles on supersymmetric theories of particles, see Refs. 8–10.)

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  1. Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

    P. Fayet

  2. CERN, 1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland

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  1. INFN, Frascati, Italy

    Sergio Ferrara

  2. Theory Division, CERN, Geneva 23, CH-1211, Switzerland

    Sergio Ferrara  & John Ellis  & 

  3. Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 24 rue Lhomond, F-75231, Paris, France

    Sergio Ferrara

  4. State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, 11794, USA

    Peter van Nieuwenhuizen

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Fayet, P. (1980). Supersymmetry, Particle Physics and Gravitation. In: Ferrara, S., Ellis, J., van Nieuwenhuizen, P. (eds) Unification of the Fundamental Particle Interactions. Ettore Majorana International Science Series, vol 7. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3171-1_33

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