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Global Supersymmetry

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Ultimate unification of all particles and all interactions is the eternal dream of theoretical physicists. The unified gauge theories have taken us a step closer to realizing the second goal. However, since known “elementary” particles consist of both fermions (q, l) and bosons (photons γ, W, Z color octet of gluons) their ultimate unification would require them either to be composites of some basic set of fermions which can be unified within a Lie group framework or that there must exist a new symmetry that transforms bosons to fermions. In this chapter, we begin discussion of this latter kind of symmetry [1], known as supersymmetry. Supersymmetry was invented in 1973 by Wess and Zumino [2] and earlier in a nonlinear realization by Volkov and Akulov [3].

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  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA

    Rabindra N. Mohapatra

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Mohapatra, R.N. (1986). Global Supersymmetry. In: Unification and Supersymmetry. Contemporary Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1928-4_9

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