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The Search for Supersymmetry Anomalies--Does Supersymmetry Break Itself? --

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The established results concerning the BRS cohomology of supersymmetric theories in four space-time dimensions are briefly reviewed. The current status of knowledge concerning supersymmetry anomalies and the possibility that supersymmetry breaks itself through anomalies in local composite operators is then discussed. It turns out that the simplest allowable supersymmetry anomalies occur only in conjunction with the spontaneous breaking of gauge symmetry. A simple example of such a possible supersymmetry anomaly is presented.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9308088,
  title  = {The Search for Supersymmetry Anomalies--Does Supersymmetry Break Itself? --},
  author = {J. A. Dixon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9308088},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

Talk given at the HARC conference on `Recent Advances in the Superworld', LaTeX 15 pages, CTP-TAMU-45/93