Herbi K. Dreiner is Professor of Physics at the University of Bonn. He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin, and also worked at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), the University of Oxford, ETH Zürich and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. He is the author of over 100 scientific papers on supersymmetry and has received several teaching prizes. He is a founder of the Bonn Physics Show for which he received the European Physical Society High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP) Outreach Prize.

Preface; Acknowledgements; Acronyms and abbreviations; Part I. Spin-1/2 Fermions in Quantum Field Theory, the Standard Model, and Beyond: 1. Two-component formalism for spin-1/2 fermions; 2. Feynman rules for spin-1/2 fermions; 3. From two-component to four-component spinors; 4. Gauge theories and the standard model; 5. Anomalies; 6. Extending the standard model; Part II. Constructing Supersymmetric Theories: 7. Introduction to supersymmetry; 8. Supersymmetric Lagrangians; 9. The supersymmetric algebra; 10. Superfields; 11. Radiative corrections in supersymmetry; 12. Spontaneous supersymmetry breaking; Part III. Realistic Supersymmetric Models: 13. The Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model; 14. Realizations of supersymmetry breaking; 15. Supersymmetric phenomenology; 16. Beyond the MSSM; Part IV. Sample Calculations in the Standard Model and Its Supersymmetric Extension: 17. Practical calculations involving two-component fermions; 18. Tree-level supersymmetric processes; 19. One-loop calculations; Part V. The Appendices: Appendix A. Notations and conventions; Appendix B. Compendium of sigma matrix and Fierz identities; Appendix C. Behavior of fermion bilinears under C, P, T; Appendix D. Kinematics and phase space; Appendix E. The spin-1/2 and spin-1 wave functions; Appendix F. The spinor helicity method; Appendix G. Matrix decompositions for fermion mass diagonalization; Appendix H. Lie group and algebra techniques for gauge theories; Appendix I. Interaction vertices of the SM and its seesaw extension; Appendix J. MSSM and RPV fermion interaction vertices; Appendix K. Integrals arising in one-loop calculations; Bibliography; References; Index.