This is the page that hopefully will reflect what we are up to in our little discussion group. Links to what we are talking about, what we are going to talk about, and general information.

Hey. I know it's over the top, but I don't care.

Hopefully everyone will get on this list, and it might act as motivation, but thanks go to Martin, Matt, Ruth and Steve for the info they've given me to put on this page!

Look at the recent changes.

This week

We will continue with the String Theory theme this week. Does anyone wish to volunteer to take the helm for this weeks discussion??? What papers or issues have grabbed your attention in the last weeks? Thanks to Steve we now have a new String Theory/Supersymmetry link...

What's New?

14/03/2002: Supersymmetry for Alp Hikers. 07/03/2002: The up-coming weeks content. 07/03/2002: The Official String Theory Web Site (String/Supersymmetry)

05/03/2002

This week (05/03/2002) will be the first real attempt. Yay! Martin will talk about String Theory, based on the BUSSTEPP lectures by Richard Tzabo. Here are some String Theory links. Ruth will tell us about Moose diagrams, based on hep-th/0104005: (De)Constructing Dimensions. General stuff... Including (hopefully) answers to these questions.

Questions

What do hep-lat, hep-ph, nucl-ph, etc actually STAND for? What is a Unitary matrix? SU matrix? Symmetric matrix? What is the best field theory book? Stewart: For starting off - Peskin and Schroeder Anyone else? How long is a piece of string theory?

Resources/Links

String Theory SUSY Interesting Papers arXiv.org SPIRES HEP Literature Database Particle data group (including ordering freebies !) HEPDATA at Durham. Net Advance Of Physics: Review articles. (?Quality Unknown?)

Resources: String Theory

Lecture notes: (Some given at ICTP, TASI, and BUSSTEPP, 222 pp !) D-Brane Primer by Clifford V. Johnson (Durham) hep-th/0007170 This years BUSSTEPP lectures by Richard Tzabo closely follow these. A fool's guide to string theory and supersymmetry as well as advanced stuff with not a lot of mathematics: The Official String Theory Web Site www.superstringtheory.com

Resources: SUSY (Super Symmetry)

A very good SUSY primer (Lagrangian formulation) is: A Supersymmetry Primer by Stephen P.Martin hep-ph/9709356 SUSY lecture notes from BUSSTEPP: (by a mathematician and the notes reflect this, both in terms of rigour and in ignoring any kind of link with Physical reality. So I've heard...) BUSSTEPP Lectures on Supersymmetry by Jose Figueroa-O'Farrill http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~jmf/BUSSTEPP.html A more phenomenological bent may be got from: Elements of Supersymmetry by Kevin Cahill hep-ph/9907295 A fool's guide to string theory and supersymmetry as well as advanced stuff with not a lot of mathematics: The Official String Theory Web Site www.superstringtheory.com Lectures from the European School of High-Energy Physics, 2001: Supersymmetry for Alp Hikers by John Ellis hep-ph/0203114

Resources: Papers

(De)Constructing Dimensions (hep-th/0104005)