SU/Nordita Theory Journal Club

This is our SU/Nordita Theory Journal Club, also one of the activities of the Oskar Klein Center.

We prefer if participants have at least read through the papers under discussion (though not necessarily all the background material)

The time slot is Thu, 11am or 1:30pm, and the place is the CoPS room (A5:1041) We intend to keep it roughly bi-weekly.

Date	Speaker	Topic	Background material
Feb 25	Are Raklev	MSSM and soft terms	Martin's review sec. 4, sec. 6.1-6.4, and Martin (1999)
April 1	Marcus Berg	Spontaneous supersymmetry breaking	Martin's review sec. 6.4,6.5,6.6 + Appendix, Luty's review Ch.5 and 9.
April 8	Pat Scott	Gauge mediation (PDF)	Sect 11.3 of Baer & Tata, Sect 6.7 of Martin, Chapter 8 of Luty, and Giudice & Rattazzi (see below).
April 15	Yashar Akrami	Gravity mediation	Baer & Tata: sec. 11.1, Martin: sec. 6.6, Luty: sec. 7, Chung: sec. 3.4,3.5. More background on supergravity: Baer & Tata: sec. 10.2,10.3,10.4, Martin: Appendix, Luty:sec. 9, Chung: Appendix B, Siegel: sec. IXA7,XA3,XA4
May 6	Mikael von Strauss	Extra-dimensional/anomaly mediation (PDF)	Randall & Sundrum: hep-th/9810155, de Alwis: 0801.0578, Martin's lectures, sec. 6.8., Terning's book Ch. 16
May 20	Are Raklev	RG running of soft terms and soft-ware	TBA
June 3	Joakim Edsjö	Soft terms and phenomenology	TBA
?	? (you?)	Other mediation mechanisms ("the zoo")	TBA

Lecture notes/overviews:

Luty (2005) (more effective field theory point of view, spurions, a little supergravity)

Shirman (2008) (more recent on mediation)

Intriligator, Seiberg (2007) (more advanced: strong coupling, dynamical supersymmetry breaking, ...)

Giudice, Rattazzi (1998) (gauge mediation, including spurion techniques)

Chung et al (2003) (the "bible", 273 pages)

others (propose some!)

Books:

Baer, Tata, "Weak Scale Supersymmetry" (2006)

Terning, "Modern Supersymmetry: Dynamics and Duality" (2006)

Siegel, "Fields" (1999) (this book is free from the arXiv!)

Weinberg, "The Quantum Theory of Fields", vol. 3 (2005)

Wess, Bagger, "Supersymmetry and supergravity" (1992)

...

Papers (recent and semi-recent):

Martin (1999) (about "soft" and finer distinctions like "technically hard")

Meade, Seiberg, Shih (2008) (general gauge mediation (weakly or strongly coupled), affectionately "MSS")

Craig, Essig et al (2009) (example of strongly coupled gauge mediation with interesting flavor physics)

Dumitrescu et al (2010) (towards general MSS-style gauge mediation phenomenology)

Komargodski, Seiberg (2009) (Goldstino interactions, Paolo discussed this Fall 2009)

Cheung, Nomura, Thaler (2010) (multi-sector phenomenology related to Komargodski-Seiberg)

Baer, de Alwis et al (2010) (string-inspired anomaly mediation)

Dudas, Mambrini et al (2008) (string-inspired gauge + gravity mediation with dark matter follow-ups)

Classic (and perhaps difficult-to-read) papers:

Dimopoulos, Georgi (1981) (classic paper on soft terms and MSSM)

Girardello, Grisaru (1982) (classic paper on soft terms)

Dine, Fischler (1982) (classic paper on gauge mediation)

others (propose some!)