This volume constitutes the Proceedings of a Europhysics Study Conference held in Erice, Sicily from March 17 to 24, 1980. The objective of the meeting was to bring together practitioners of two different approaches to the unification of the fundamental par ticle interactions: supersymmetry and supergravity on the one hand, and grand unified gauge theories on the other hand. The hope was that exposure to each others' ideas and problems would at least aid mutual comprehension, and might start people thinking how to develop a synthesis of the two approaches which could avoid their individual shortcomings. It is not clear to us how successful the conference was in achieving these objectives. On the one hand many important ad vances in supersymmetric theories were reported which were primarily of a technical nature, while some interesting attempts to probe the phenomenological consequences of supersymmetry and supergravity were also presented. On the other hand there was considerable in terest in phenomenological aspects of grand unified theories such as proton decay, neutrino masses and oscillations, and links with cosmology. There was also some work on model-building but rela tively few purely technical advances. A few speakers tried to build bridges between the formalism of supersymmetry or supergravity and the phenomenologically successful gauge theories of elementary par ticle interactions.
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S. Ferrara, Jonathan Ellis, P. van Nieuw, Europhysics Study Conference on Unification of the Fundamental Particle Interactions (1980 Erice, Italy), John Ellis

edited by Sergio Ferrara, John Ellis, Peter Nieuwenhuizen

Plenum Press

Ettore Majorana International Science Series -- 7, Ettore Majorana International Science Series -- 7., Boston, MA, Massachusetts, 1981

Ettore Majorana international science series, v. 7, New York, ©1980

Ettore Majorana international science series, 7, Boston, MA, 1980

Ettore Majorana International Science Series 7, 1, 1980

United States, United States of America

Springer Nature, New York, NY, 2012

1980, 2012

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Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Supergravities: Successes and Problems....Pages 1-16
Neutrino Masses, Lepton Number Violation and Unification....Pages 17-22
Exceptional Groups for Grand Unification....Pages 23-40
A Simple Introduction to Complex Manifolds....Pages 41-51
Precise Predictions of GUTs and of the Higgs Meson Mass....Pages 53-67
Attempts at Superunification....Pages 69-88
Unification Through a Supergroup....Pages 89-99
Superspace....Pages 101-117
Eleven-Dimensional Supergravity in Superspace....Pages 119-136
N = 8 Supergravity....Pages 137-155
The On-Shell N=8 Supergravity in Superspace....Pages 157-169
Supergravity and Cohomology Theory: Progress and Problems in D = 5....Pages 171-185
Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theories....Pages 187-244
What is Supergravity and which of its Goals have been Reached?....Pages 245-265
Quark-Lepton Unification and Proton Decay....Pages 267-303
Subcomponent Models for Quarks and Leptons: Difficulties and Perspectives....Pages 305-326
Formulations of N = 2 Supergravity Theories....Pages 327-347
Tensor Calculus for N = 2 Extended Supergravity....Pages 349-368
Quantization of Supergravity with a Cosmological Constant....Pages 369-378
A Short Appreciation of Joel Scherk and his Work....Pages 379-380
Gravitation at Short Range and Supergravity....Pages 381-409
Supergravity and Gauge Supersymmetry....Pages 411-433
The Fermion Spectrum According to GUTs....Pages 435-449
Magnetic Monopoles and Grand Unified Theories....Pages 451-459
Grand Unification and Cosmology....Pages 461-493
Cosmology Confronts Grand Unification....Pages 495-508
Solution of the Bianchi Identities in SU(2) Extended Superspace with Constraints....Pages 509-523
The U(1) Problem and Current Algebra....Pages 525-543
Superfield Perturbation Theory....Pages 545-557
Supersymmetric Regularization and Superconformal Anomalies....Pages 559-568
The Production of Magnetic Monopoles in the Very Early Universe....Pages 569-582
Randomness as a Source of Massless Particles....Pages 583-585
Supersymmetry, Particle Physics and Gravitation....Pages 587-620
The Calculation of the Decay Rate of the Proton....Pages 621-637
The Irvine-Michigan-Brookhaven Nucleon Decay Search: Status Report on an Experiment Sensitive to A Lifetime of 10 33 Years....Pages 639-659
A Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiment Sensitive to Mass Differences of Hundredths of an Electron Volt....Pages 661-672
Investigations on Nucleon Stability in Europe....Pages 673-687
Supersymmetry Without Anticommuting Variables....Pages 689-696
What is a Non-Trivial Solution in Supergravity?....Pages 697-700
Supersymmetric Pre-QCD Dynamics....Pages 701-710
The Gauge Invariant Supercurrent in SQED....Pages 711-716
Back Matter....Pages 717-727

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