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Supergravity Models

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-09-25 v1

Abstract

Theoretical and experimental motivations behind supergravity grand unified models are described. The basic ideas of supergravity, and the origin of the soft breaking terms are reviewed. Effects of GUT thresholds and predictions arising from models possessing proton decay are discussed. Speculations as to which aspects of the Standard Model might be explained by supergravity models and which may require Planck scale physics to understand are mentioned.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9311362,
  title  = {Supergravity Models},
  author = {R. Arnowitt and Pran Nath},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9311362},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Talk at 31st International School of Sub Nuclear Physics, Erice, 1991, 23 pages, plaintex file, 6 figures avaliable upon request