| A Supersymmetry Primer |
This is the home page for "A Supersymmetry Primer", hep-ph/9709356, by Stephen P. Martin.
The latest version, v5, became available here on December 9, 2008. The arXiv version is 128 pages in 11pt type. Perhaps you would prefer a 12pt type version, better for 2-per-page printing and for weaker eyes, but weighing in at 142 pages? Here it is, as pdf or ps. It is identical to the arXiv version except for the font size and pagination.
Version 4 (June 2006) introduced numerous additions, updates and improvements throughout. Version 5 mainly contains a significant change of convention, flipping the sign of the sigma and sigmabar matrices in order to agree with the conventions of, for example, Mark Srednicki's quantum field theory book and the paper "Two-component spinor techniques and Feynman rules for quantum field theory and supersymmetry" arXiv:0812.1594 [hep-ph] by Herbi Dreiner, Howie Haber, and me. It also contains some minor updates on supersymmetry breaking models, notably brief mentions of metastable supersymmetry breaking and the R-symmetric MSSM.
The source files, including the .eps figures, are available here. (Most of the figures are done directly in LaTeX with axodraw.sty.)
Corrections, comments, and suggestions are always welcome. Please
send them to
Corrections for version 5 in pdf form or postscript form.
Corrections for version 4 in pdf form or postscript form
Versions 3 and earlier are now hopelessly obsolete! (But corrections for them are still available here.)
This work is supported in part by National Science Foundation Grant PHY-0456635.