The Experimental Investigation of Supersymmetry Breaking
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چکیده
If Nature is supersymmetric at the weak interaction scale, what can we hope to learn from experiments on supersymmetric particles? The most mysterious aspect of phenomenological supersymmetry is the mechanism of spontaneous supersymmetry breaking. This mechanism ties the observable pattern of supersymmetric particle masses to aspects of the underlying unified theory at very small distance scales. In this article, I will discuss a systematic experimental program to determine the mechanism of supersymmetry breaking. Both pp and e+e− colliders of the next generation play an essential role. to appear in the proceedings of the Yukawa International Seminar (YKIS-95) Kyoto, Japan, August 21-25, 1995 ∗) Work supported by the Department of Energy, contract DE–AC03–76SF00515.
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