Spontaneous Breaking of Supersymmetry in Non-Abelian Gauge Theories

  • A. A. Slavnov
Part of the Studies in the Natural Sciences book series (SNS, volume 10)

Abstract

The Higgs mechanism gives at present the only reliable method of spontaneous symmetry breaking in quantum field theory. However, straightforward application of this mechanism to supersymmetric theories meets certain difficulties due to specific form of the supersymmetric potential. Fayet and Illipoulosl succeeded to solve the problem for the case of the supersymmetric theory invariant with respect to Abelian gauge group (see also2). Unfortunately this method is not directly applicable to the case of semi-simple gauge group which is the most interesting from the practical point of view. In particular it does not allow one to construct a model which is simultaneously infra-red convergent and asymptotically free, for which the supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory is a natural candidate.

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© Plenum Press, New York 1976

Authors and Affiliations

  • A. A. Slavnov
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  1. 1.Steclov Mathematical InstituteMoscowUSSR

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