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A review of the recent proposal of Supergravity Grand Unification is given. Topics include the structure of Supergravity GUTS, symmetry breaking through Supergravity induced effects, protection at low energy from intermediate and superheavy mass scales, effective potential and the particle spectrum at low energy. Experimental consequences of Supergravity GUTS and in particular the decays of W and Z into photino, Wino and Zino modes and their branching ratios in various channels are also discussed.
Research is supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHY 77-22864 and Grant No. 80-8333.
On sabbatical leave from the Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115.
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Nath, P., Arnowitt, R., Chamseddine, A.H. (1985). Supergravity Grand Unification. In: Mintz, S.L., Perlmutter, A. (eds) High-Energy Physics. Studies in the Natural Sciences, vol 20. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8848-7_10
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