Advanced Supersymmetry
Supplementary Notes
Class of Dr. Kaplunovsky, Fall 2025
Superspace conventions
.
Supersymmetric Higgs mechanism
.
SQCD
.
No-renormalization theorem
.
Superfield Feynman rules
.
Wilsonian renormalization group
(exerpt from the
Peskin and Schroeder
textbook.
SQED superfield Feynman rules
.
SQED beta function
.
Ward–Takahashi identities for SQED
.
Konishi anomaly
.
Anomalies, gauge couplings, and NSVZ equations
.
SYM, SCQD, and Veneziano–Yankielowicz superpotentials
(in progress).
Conformal and superconformal algebras
.
Seiberg–Witten: Monodromies, Confinement, and Elliptic Curves
.
Last Modified: September 21, 2025.
Vadim Kaplunovsky
vadim@physics.utexas.edu