The Supersymmetric World: The Beginnings Of The Theory

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The story of the discovery of supersymmetry is a fascinating one, unlike that of any other major development in the history of science. This engaging book presents a view of the process, mainly in the words of people who participated. It combines anecdotal descriptions and personal reminiscences with more technical accounts of the trailblazers, covering the birth of the theory and its first years - the origin of the idea, four-dimensional field theory realization, and supergravity. The eyewitnesses convey to us the drama of one of the deepest discoveries in theoretical physics in the 20th century. This book will be equally interesting and useful to young researchers in high energy physics and to mature scholars - physicists and historians of science.

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THE SUPERSYMMETRIC WORLD The [email protected] $the Theory THE S UPERSYMMETR IC WO R LD The Be$nnfnf.s of the Theory Edited by G. Kane The Randall Laboratory, University of Michigan, USA M. Shifman Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota, USA \e L World Scientific Singapore New Jersey. London Hong Kong Published by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. P 0 Box 128, Farrer Road, Singapore 912805 USA office: Suite IB, 1060 Main Street, River Edge, NJ 07661 UK ofice: 57 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9HE British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. The editors and publisher would like to thank Springer-Verlag for their kind permission to include the contribution by D. V. Volkov. Cover Illustration by Julia Shifman (1988). All rights reserved. THE SUPERSYMMETRIC WORLD Copyright 02000 by
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