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In a similar way one has β F αµβ = < 0 Aα n,m >< n,m V µ k > . Aµ(x)= g aµ(x)+ F ∂µφ (x) , (10) | a | | c | | b | a A a π a n,m,kX (4) It should be clear that Eqs. (9) and (10) are a conse- Here, for example, n must be either π or A1, and m quence of single particle saturation assumption and not must be a ρ and k a π or A1. This means that one of the meant to be fundamental postulates. Thus our approach particles in the matrix element < n,m V ν k > must be differs from the one by Lee, Weinberg and Zumino [22]. a “spectator”. Thus one has | | It should now be noted that Eqs. (9) and (10) are to be used in the following way: we solve the Heisenberg equa-

µ 3 tions and then use them to first order in the coupling < πq1a1ρ,p1a3 Vc πq2a2 > = δa1a2 δ (~q1 ~q2) constant in the computation of T-product involving three | | µ− < ρp1a3 Vc 0 > . (5) currents. This is equivalent to the in-field expansion of × | | Eq. (7). However, due to the presence of the propagators Such contributions are required by Lorentz invariance µ µ ∆λ etc the locality of Vc (x) etc is not guaranteed. Thus and crossing symmetry. Indeed Eq. (5) is the cross µ µ if we demand that va (x), πa(x) and aa (x) be local field diagram contribution to Eq. (3). Now the vacuum operators, whose commutators for -like separations to one particle matrix elements of currents define the vanish, then this condition can be guaranteed if we re- interpolating constants Fπ,gA,gρ so that one has < µ α α α ασ quire that the sources for the fields vc etc arise from a 0 Aa (0) πq1a1 >= Fπq , < 0 A (0) A1σ >= gAǫ and | µ | µσ | | Lagrangian with interactions that are cubic in the fields. < 0 V (0) ρσ >= gρǫ (where we have suppressed the Thus the arguments laid out above lead us to an effective normalizations| | and iso-spin factors). These results can µ µ µ µ Lagrangian of the form be simulated by writing Va = gρv˜a and Aa = gAa˜a + µ Fπ∂ φ˜a where the tilde fields are the in-fields. For the (3) matrix elements of a current between two particle states, eff = 0 + g 3 (11) µ L L L e.g., < πq1a Vc (0) πq2b> we write (suppressing normal- µ | | µ λ where 0 = 0π + 0ρ + 0A1 . We note that we arrived at ization factors) < πq1a Vc (0) πq2b >= ǫabc∆λΓ (q1, q2) L L L L µ | | λ Eq. (11) purely from the conditions of (i) single particle where ∆λ is a ρ propagator and the vertex Γ can be expanded in a power series saturation of T -products, (ii) spectator approximation, (iii) Lorentz invariance and crossing symmetry and , (iv) locality. The current algebra constraints, i.e., current Γλ(q , q ) = (qλ + qλ)(α + α k2 + ) , (6) algebra commutation relations, CVC and PCAC have 1 2 1 2 1 2 ··· λ λ λ played no role in the analysis thus far. where k = q1 q2 . Now the two particle matrix element µ − µ of V , i.e., < πq1a Vc (0) πq2b >, can be obtained if we µ | | The analysis above can be extended to higher point replace the vc field in terms of the bilinear product of functions. For instance, for the computation of the four two pion in-fields. Including the vacuum to one particle -point function, matrix element contribution this leads us to a following µ αβµν α β µ ν form for Vc . F (x,y,z,w) , ≡ (12)

µ µ 4 µ the implementation of the single particle saturation re- V (x)= gρv˜ + ǫabc d y∆ (x y) c c Z λ − quires that we include the following set of contributions, and (i) diagrams where we have a cascade of three point α α 2 + φ˜ (y)∂λφ˜ (y)+ , (7) × 1 − 2 ··· a b ··· vertices, and (ii) diagrams where we have four point ver-   where the dots at the end stand for other bilinear terms tices. The diagrams of type (i) arise from 3, and dia- grams of type (ii) arise from . The LagrangianL that are left out. The form above guarantees crossing L4 symmetry. A very similar analysis holds for the axial (4) = + g + g2 , (13) current. For further analysis it is useful to replace the Leff L0 L3 L4 in-fields by the Heisenberg field operators which obey the is to be used to the first non-vanishing order, i.e., order Heisenberg field equations. Thus we consider the ρ field g2, discarding disconnected diagrams to compute the T vµ to obey the Heisenberg field equation c product of four currents. It is now straightforward to extend the analysis to the computation of T products µ λ −1 2 of N-point functions. Thus using the same principles as Kλ (x)vc (x)= gρ ǫabc α1 α2 + − ··· above, the analysis of N-point functions involves using an φ (x)∂µφ (x)+ ,  (8) × a b ··· interaction Lagrangian [15, 16] µ µ 2 2 µ where Kλ is the Proca operator Kλ = ( + mρ)δλ + µ − ∂ ∂λ]. Thus Eq. (7) is now equivalent to the relation (N) 2 k−2 N−2 eff = 0 + g 3 + g 4 + + g k + + g N . µ µ L L L L ··· L ··· L Va (x)= gρva (x). (9) (14) 3

k−2 The coupling in k will be viewed as (g ). Further, ation of the matrix elements as we went off the pion - the computationL of an N -point functionO is then done shell. However, in a paper in 1968 we discovered [26] that using the effective Lagrangian to order N 2 in the cou- hard pion analysis also gave a vanishing π0 2γ decay. plings. The effective Lagrangian techniques− described This lead us to propose a modification of the→ PCAC con- above have a much larger domain of validity than the dition by introducing an axial current anomaly which specific example of the mesonic system being discussed exists even in the chiral limit [26], i.e., we proposed µ 2 µν αβ ′ µν αβ here. ∂µAa = Famaφa +λdabcǫµναβFb Fc +λ ǫµναβFa φ , Current Algebra Constraints: After ensuring that where a,b,c = 1 8. With the above modification the constraints of single particles saturation, spectator a number of other··· decays were also computed such as approximation, Lorentz invariance and locality can be η 2γ and ρ0π0γ. The axial anomaly was simultane- embodied by writing an effective Lagrangian we impose ously→ computed from triangle loops with by Bell constraints of current algebra. As mentioned earlier and Jackiw [27] and by Adler [28]. these consist of (i) equal-time commutation relations on Scale Invariance and scale breaking: The scaling [29] the densities2, (ii) CVC, and (iii) PCAC. The π ρ A − − 1 observed in electro-production data lead to the hypoth- effective Lagrangian allowed one to compute πρA1 esis that physical laws are scale-invariant at high ener- processes without the soft pion approximation and get gies [30–32]. While such a hypothesis may hold at high results consistent with data. As discussed above the , it is certainly violated at low and intermediate technique of effective Lagrangian allows one to obtain as physics is not scale-invariant there. Thus at Lagrangians obeying current algebra constraints for low and intermediate scales dimensioned parameters such higher points functions. Thus for SU(2) SU(2) current × as appear. Supposing that scale invariance is of algebra constraints the effective Lagrangian method was fundamental significance then it is of relevance to ask the used not only for the processes ρ ππ , A1 πρ but manner of its breakdown. Several works had tried to ap- also to give the first analysis of ππ → ππ scattering→ using → proach this problem in the early seventies [33–36]. In our hard pion current algebra [17]. The effective Lagrangian analysis of scale invariance and its breakdown the stress method was then extended to include SU(3) SU(3) × tensor and its trace play a central role. Out approach current algebra constraints which allowed an analysis of to scale invariance and its breakdown was parallel to our the Kℓ3 and πK scattering [18–20, 23]. In a later work approach to current algebra [37–39]. Thus in the analysis [23] the current algebra constraints were also applied to of the current algebra constraints we assumed that the the Veneziano model. vector current was dominated by a vector spin 1 particle and the axial current by an axial vector and a pseudo- Effective vs Phenomenological Lagrangians: The effec- scalar meson. In an analogous fashion we assumed that tive Lagrangian technique used in [5–7, 15–21]. is dif- the stress tensor was dominated by J P =2+, 0+ mesons ferent from the works of Schwinger [9], Wess and Zu- in a new field current identity. Applications were made in mino [10], and of Ben Lee and Nieh [11] which were the deduction of light-cone algebra, deep-inelastic scat- phenomenological Lagrangians. In phenomenological La- tering [39] and e+e− annihilation at intermediate energies grangian, one starts by constructing Lagrangians which [38]. have SU(2) SU(2) or SU(3) SU(3) invariance. The in- variance is then× broken by additional× terms which are in- troduced by hand. In the effective Lagrangian approach no a priori assumption was made regarding the type of symmetry breaking, chiral or ordinary. The current alge- II. THE U(1) PROBLEM bra constraints alone determine the nature of symmetry breaking. What we found was that for hard meson cur- The U(1) problem relates to the fact that the ordinary rent algebra with single meson dominance of the currents U(3) U(3) current algebra leads to the ninth pseudo- and of the σ commutator, the chiral symmetry breaking × ′ √ was broken only by [16] (3, 3∗) + (3∗, 3). This type of scalar meson being light [40, 41]: mη < 3 mπ . For- mally a resolution was proposed by t’Hooft [42] who breaking had been proposed by Gell-Mann, Oakes and Renner [24]. showed that the instanton solution to the Yang-Mills the- ory provides a contribution to the η′ mass. However, The Axial Current Anomaly: Beginning in 1967 one of the big puzzles related to the Veltman theorem [25] which the t’Hooft solution is inadequate as it does not make contact with the quark-antiquark annihilation of the sin- was that in the soft pion approximation the pion decay into two γ′s vanished. It was generally held that a possi- glet pseudo scalar into gluons [43]. Further, Witten[44] showed that a resolution of the U(1) anomaly arises in ble source of this problem could be that the soft pion ap- ′ proximation was breaking down due to a very rapid vari- the 1/N expansion of QCD. Thus the η is massless in the N limit but significant non-zero contributions arise from→ terms ∞ which are 1/N smaller than the leading terms and split η′ from the octet. We examined the problem 2 The imposition of the absence of q-number Schwinger term gives from an effective Lagrangian view point. We introduced a 2 2 2 2 2 µ the first Weinberg Sum rule: gρ/mρ = gA/mA + Fπ . Kogut-Susskind ghost field K and constructed a closed 4 form solution for the effective Lagrangian[45–48]. symmetry it ought to be a local symmetry. Very quickly we realized that gauging of supersymmetry requires bring- 1 2 µ µ ing in , and we thought that the direct course of = CA + (∂µKν ) + G∂µK θ∂µK , (15) L L 2C − action was to extend the of Einstein gravity to superspace geometry. This lead to the formulation which gives a complete description of the interaction of gauge supersymmetry [52] based on a single tensor of the field Kµ with the mesonic fields. Thus G is a superfield g (z) in superspace consisting of bose and function which depends on the spin zero and spin one ΛΠ fermi co-ordinates, i.e., zΛ = (xµ,θαi) where xµ are the mesonic fields, θ is the strong CP violating parameter of bose co-ordinates of ordinary space-time and θαi are anti- QCD, and C is the strength of the topological charge commuting fermi co-ordinates. We considered a line el- i < T (K K ) > = Cη /q2 + . Ignoring spin µ ν µν ement of the form ds2 = dzΛg (z)dzΠ and required its one fields, G is determined− to be of··· the form given by ΛΠ 1 † invariance under the general co-ordinate transformations Rosenzweig et.al. [49], G = lndetξ lndetξ , where ′ 2 in superspace zΛ = z Λ + ξΛ(z) which leads to the trans- ξ = (u + iv )λ and where u and −v are scalar and a a a a a  formations of the superspace metric tensor of the form pseudo-scalar densities. Using the effective Lagrangian which includes the effect of the U(1) anomaly, we found 3 a sum rule of the form [46, 47] δg (z)= g ξΣ + ( 1)Λ+ΛΣξΣ ξ + g ξΣ , (19) ΛΠ ΛΣ ,Π − ,Λ ΣΠ ΛΠ,Σ Λ 2 2 2 2 where ( 1) = 1( 1) when Λ is bosonic (fermionic) etc. (F + √2 F ) m + (F + √2 F ) m ′ 88 98 η 89 99 η One may− also introduce− a supervierbein so that 2 Nf =0 2 2 4 2 d E A (1+B)Π B =3mπFπ + Nf 2 , (16) gΛΠ(z)= V Λ(z)ηAB( 1) V Π(z) (20) 3  dθ θ=0 − where ηAB is a tangent space metric so that where Nf is the number of light quark flavors. If one ignores the first and the last terms, sets F89 = 0, and let F99 Nf /6 Fπ (Nf = 3), one finds the Weinberg → ηmn 0 result [41] p ηAB =   (21) 0 kηab mη′ < √3 mπ . (17)   where ηmn is the metric in bose space and ηab is the met- −1 Further, in the limit mπ =0= mη, F89 = 0 and F99 ric in fermi space, so that η = (C ) where C is the → ab − ab Nf /6 Fπ one finds Witten’s result [44] charge conjugation matrix. In Eq. (21) k is an arbitrary p parameter. Global supersymmetry transformations are 2 Nℓ=0 Λ 2 4Nf d E(θ) generated by ξ of the form ′ mη 2 2 . (18) → Fπ  dθ θ=0 µ ¯ µ α α In addition to the work of [45–49] a Lagrangian formula- ξ = iλγ θ, ξ = λ , (22) tion including the U(1) axial anomaly was given by Di- where λα are constant infinitesimal anti-commuting pa- Vecchia and Veneziano [50]. Witten [51] has shown that rameters. For the global supersymmetry case the metric these Lagrangian formulations which include the effect of that keeps the line element invariant is given by the U(1) anomaly and solve the η′ puzzle are consistent with the large N chiral dynamics. gµν = ηµν , g = i(θγ¯ m) η , µα − α mµ III. LOCAL SUPERSYMMETRY m gαβ = kηαβ + (θγ¯ m)α(θγ¯ )β . (23)

It was in 1974 when I was at the XVII ICHEP Con- To set up an action principle in superspace required defin- ference in London that I first became interested in su- ing a superdeterminant. In work with Bruno Zumino [53] persymmetry. On my return to Boston I talked to Dick it was shown that for a matrix MAB with bosonic and fermionic components M ,M ,M ,M where to work in this area. At that time SUSY was a global { µν µα αµ αβ} symmetry, and we thought that if it is a fundamental Mµν and Mαβ are bosonic and Mµα and Mαµ are fermionic quantities, det(M) is given by

−1 αβ 3 detM = (detMµν )det(M ) . (24) Fab are defined through divergence of the axial current so that 2 αβ 1/2 µ ⊃ µ This also then gives ( g) = [ (detgµν )(detg )] . ∂µAa Fabµbcχc + Nℓδa9∂µK . − − r 3 Using the above one canp then set up an action principle in superspace so that 5

g (z)= i(θγ¯ ) em + (ψ¯µγ θ)(θγ¯ m) + ∆g , µα − m α µ m α µα g (z)= kη + (θγ¯ ) (θγ¯ m) + ∆g . (27) A = d8z√ g R, (25) αβ αβ m α β αβ Z − Here ∆ξµ, ∆ξα etc are quantities that depend on k and where R is a superspace curvature scalar defined by also contain terms O(θ3) and higher. An important re- a AB R = ( 1) g RBA. A more general action than the sult that emerges is that the gauge completion procedure − one in Eq. (25) can be gotten by including an addi- using Eq. (19) determines the vierbein affinity to be that tional term, i.e., 2λ d8z√ g , which leads to the field of supergravity, i.e., − equations in superspaceR to read RAB = λgAB. Some very encouraging features emerged. From the superspace transformations we were able to recover both the Ein- i rs Γµ = σrsωµ , (28) stein gauge invariance and the Yang-Mills gauge invari- 4 ance which appeared to be quite remarkable. The met- rs where ωµ correctly includes the supergravity torsion. In ric superfield gAB contains many fields. Thus gµν (z) = ¯ ¯ x the k 0 Eq. (27) give the correct supergravity transfor- gµν (x)+ , gµα(z)= ψµα(x)+(θMx)αBµ+ , gαβ(z)= → 2 ··· ··· mation equations as well as the correct gΛΠ up to (θ ). (ηF (x)) + (θM¯ ) χ¯x (x)+ . Here g is the metric O αβ x [α β] ··· µν Further the dynamical equations of gauge supersymme- in ordinary bose space and contains the spin 2 graviton try RΛΠ = 0 (setting λ = 0) produce correctly the dy- field, ψµα is a spin 3/2 field, Bµ is a vector field and F (x) namical equations of supergravity. We note here that the and χβ were spin 0 and spin 1/2 fields. The implications integration of Eq. (19) beyond linear order in θ requires of this theory was examined in several works [54–61]. use of on-shell constraints, i.e., they can be integrated if Supergravity and Gauge Supersymmetry: While gauge we impose field equations. Integration off the mass-shell supersymmetry was the first realization of a local super- requires Breitenlohner fields [68] which allows gauge com- symmetry, its field content is rather complicated. Further pletion without use of field equations [66]. developments in this field occurred via formulation of lo- Geometrically the connection between gauge super- cal supersymmetry involving just the spin 2 and spin 3/2 symmetry and supergravity is the following: Gauge su- fields [62, 63] (for a review see [64]), i.e., supergravity. persymmetry is a geometry with the tangent space group The question then is what is the connection of gauge su- OSp(3, 1 4N) while the tangent space group of super- persymmetry to supergravity. In [65–67] we showed that gravity geometry| is O(3, 1) O(N). In the limit k 0 supergravity can be recovered from gauge supersymme- the geometry of gauge supersymmetry× contracts to→ the try if one discards all other fields in the metric gAB(z) supergravity geometry. The contraction produces the de- except the spin 2 and spin 3/2 fields and considers the sired torsions [67] needed in the superspace formulation k 0 (where k is defined in Eq. (23)) limit of gauge of supergravity [69–71] and the tangent space group → supersymmetry. OSp(3, 1 4N) of gauge supersymmetry reduces [67] to Thus to recover supergravity from gauge supersymme- the tangent| space group O(3, 1) O(N) of supergravity. try we construct the metric only in terms of spin 2 and Thus the the k 0 limit of the geometry× of gauge super- → spin 3/2 fields. Specifically we want to construct gAB symmetry correctly produces the supergravity geometry m α A depending on the fields e µ(x) and ψµ (x) and find ξ so in superspace. that the transformation equation Eq. (19) leads correctly m to the supergravity transformations for e µ(x) and ψµ(x) so that IV. GRAVITY MEDIATED BREAKING AND SUPERGRAVITY GRAND UNIFICATION m ¯ m δe µ = iψµ(x)γ λ(x) , 1 This phase of research with Dick involves Ali Chamsed- δψµ(x) = (∂µ +Γµ)λ(x),, (26) 2 dine. In 1980 I was on sabbatical leave at CERN and it was sheer good luck that I met Ali there. Ali was aware where λ(x) are the transformation parameters and Γµ is to be determined. This is to be done by using Eq. (19) of the work that Dick and I had done on local super- order by order in θ by the process of gauge completion symmetry since at the suggestion of his thesis advisor developed in [65–67]. Using this procedure one finds , he had worked on gauge supersymmetry [65–67] which appears as a part of his Ph.D. thesis at Imperial College, London [72, 73]. Beyond that he had worked on 1 supergravity as a of supersymmetry [74]. ξµ(z)= iλ¯(x)γµθ + (ψ¯ γµθ)(λγ¯ mθ) + ∆ξµ(z) , 2 m At the time I met Ali, Dick and I were looking for a re- i 1 search associate on our NSF grant and we thought that ξα(z)= λα(x) ψ αλγ¯ mθ ψ α(ψ¯ γrθ)(λγ¯ mθ) − 2 m − 4 r m Ali would be a good fit for us because of our common α m α i(Γmθ) (λγ¯ θ) + ∆ξ (z) , interests in supersymmetry and so after a conversation − with Dick, I made an offer to Ali to visit Boston after g (z)= g (x)+ iψ¯ γ θ iθγ¯ Γ θ µν µν (µ ν) − (µ ν) culmination of his Fellowship period at CERN. Ali ar- (ψ¯ γmθ)(ψ¯ γ θ)+ δg , rived in Boston in January of 1981. He had recently − µ ν m µν 6

finished a work on the coupling of N = 4 supergravity to matter fields in the superpotential directly as that would N = 4 matter [75] and was actively working on interact- lead to Planck size masses for the matter fields. For this ing supergravity in ten-dimensions and its compactifica- reason it was necessary to create two sectors, one where tion to a four -dimensional theory. After his work on 10- only quarks, leptons and Higgs fields reside and the other dimensional supergravity was finished in the beginning sector where the superHiggs field resides. In this case the of the Fall 1981 [76], our interests converged on model only coupling that exists between the observed or the vis- building within N = 1 supergravity framework. N = 1 ible sector and the superHiggs or the hidden sector was supersymmetry has been shown to have many desirable through gravitational interactions. In this way we could properties including the fact that it provided a techni- generate soft terms in the visible sector which could be of cal solution to the gauge hierarchy problem. However, at the electroweak size. Thus we assumed the superpoten- that time there were no acceptable supersymmetry based tial to be of the form W = W1 + W2 where W1 contains models where one could break supersym- only matter and Higgs fields and W2 only the superHiggs 2 metry spontaneously in a phenomenologically viable way. field z. Assuming W2 = m f(z) one finds that the soft terms of size (m2/M ) grow in the visible sector after As mentioned our analysis started in the beginning of O Pl the Fall of 1981. At that time only the most general spontaneous breaking of supersymmetry in the hidden coupling of one chiral field with supergravity was known sector. Thus if m is of size the intermediate scale, i.e., (1011) GeV, one finds that soft terms in the visible sec- through the 1979 work of Cremmer etal [77]. However, O the construction of a particle physics model required ex- tor are size the electroweak scale. The intermediate scale of (1011) GeV could arise from a strongly interacting tension to an arbitrary number of chiral fields. Thus the O first task was to construct a Lagrangian with an arbitrary gauge group in the hidden sector. number of chiral fields which couple to an adjoint repre- The mechanism discussed above avoids the appearance sentation of a gauge group and to N = 1 supergravity. of Planck size masses in the soft sector. However, since This analysis was rather elaborate and took us up to the we were working with a grand unified theory where heavy early spring of 1982 to complete. The Lagrangian showed GUT fields with masses of size (MG) appear, it was O some very interesting features in that there were terms possible that the soft terms could be size (MG). Our O in the scalar potential which were both positive and neg- analysis of [79, 80] (see also [86]) showed that the soft ative and thus an opportunity existed of their cancella- terms are indeed independent of MG. In the analysis of tion after spontaneous breaking of supersymmetry which [79] the generation of soft terms was also shown to lead was a very desirable feature for the generation of a viable to the breaking of the electroweak symmetry resolving model. Although we had the couplings in the early spring a long standing problem of the Standard Model where of 1982, we did not publish them immediately since we the breaking is induced by the assumption of a tachyonic were after construction of a realistic supergravity grand mass term for the . The preceding discussion unified model. The N = 1 supergravity couplings were shows that our efforts were successful and we were able to published later in the Trieste Lecture Series titled “Ap- formulate the first phenomenologically viable supergrav- plied N= 1 Supergravity” [78]. Our analyses to be pub- ity grand unified model with gravity mediated breaking lished later in the Summer and Fall of 1982 [79–81] were [79–81] which lead to several further works involving Ali, based on the supergravity couplings contained in [78]. Dick, and myself [78, 80, 87–93]. A history of the devel- (The supergravity couplings with an arbitrary number opment of SUGRA GUT and of these collaborative works of chiral fields were independently obtained by Cremmer are discussed in several reviews [72, 94, 95]. Subsequent etal [82, 83] and also by Bagger and Witten [84]). In to our work of [79] a number of related papers appeared our attempt to construct the supergravity grand unified in a short period of time. A partial list of these is given model one of the phenomena we noticed concerned the in [96–105]. lifting of the degeneracy after spontaneous breaking of The 1982 works created a new direction of research the GUT symmetry. Thus in a globally supersymmet- where the electroweak physics testable at colliders and ric theory the breaking of SU(5) leads to three possible in underground experiment could be discussed within the vacua which have the vacuum symmetry given by SU(5), framework of a UV complete model. Specifically testable SU(4) U(1) and SU(3) SU(2) U(1) which are de- predictions of supergravity models include electroweak × × × generate. For the supergravity case we found that this loop corrections to precision parameters such as gµ 2, degeneracy was lifted by gravitational interactions. This sparticle signatures at colliders, proton decay and dark− phenomena was also observed by Weinberg [85]. matter. Several of these topics were worked on in a series However, to construct a realistic grand unified model of papers involving Ali, Dick and myself [78, 80, 87–93]. we needed to break the N = 1 supersymmetry and grow Further collaborative work on these topics between Dick mass terms for the squarks and the sleptons which were and I continued even after Ali left Northeastern Uni- large enough to have escaped detection in current experi- versity and moved on to work on strings and on non- ment. For the breaking of supersymmetry we utilized the commutative geometry. Below we give further details of superHiggs effect where the superHiggs field develops a some of the implications of supergravity unified models. vacuum expectation value which is (MPl). However, a As mentioned earlier a remarkable aspect of supergrav- superHiggs field could not be allowedO to interact with the ity grand unified theory is that soft breaking parameters 7 can induce breaking of the electroweak symmetry [79] and Z are off-shell and such signals are now some of the pri- an attractive mechanism for this is via radiative breaking mary modes of discovery for the supersymmetric parti- [97, 99, 101, 104, 106] using renormalization group evo- cles. Leptonic signals were further discussed in several lution [107] (for a review see [108]). The radiative elec- later works [130–132]. A variety of other signatures of troweak symmetry breaking must, however, be arranged SUGRA models were discussed in several early reports to preserve color and charge conservation [109–111]. The on supersymmetric signatures [78, 133, 134] and more radiative electroweak symmetry breaking can be used to intensely in the SUGRA Working Group Collaboration determine the Higgs mixing parameter µ except for its Report [135]. sign. The simplest SUGRA model that emerges is the Sparticle spectrum: After the LEP data came out one with universal soft breaking at the grand unification which showed that the extrapolation of gauge coupling scale which can be parameterized at the electroweak scale constants was not consistent with a non-supersymmetric by grand unification SU(5) but was consistent with a su- persymmetric one, we found it appropriate to compute the sparticle spectrum in a supergravity unified model m ,m , A , tan β, sign(µ) : mSUGRA (29) 0 1/2 0 using renormalization group evolution. This was done where m0 is the universal scalar mass, m1/2 is the univer- in [136] (see also [137]). Subsequent to the works of sal gaugino mass, A0 is the universal trilinear coupling, [136, 137] there were several analyses along these lines tan β =< H2 >/

where H2 gives mass to the (see, e.g., [138, 139]). Currently such RG analyses are up quarks and H1 gives mass to the down quarks and the standard procedure in generating the mass spectra leptons, and sign(µ) is the sign of µ which is not deter- in supergravity unified models. mined by radiative electroweak symmetry breaking. For Proton decay: It was pointed out by Weinberg [140] more general choices of the Kahler potential and of the and by Sakai and Yanagida [141] that the supersym- gauge kinetic energy function, SUGRA models with non- metric grand unified models contain baryon and lepton universalities are obtained [105, 112–114]. Some early number violating dimension five operators. Initial inves- work on the signatures of supergravity models can be tigation of the main decay modes of the supersymmetric found in [87–89, 100, 115–122]. GUTs was done in [142, 143]. The first analysis within Supersymmetric electroweak corrections to gµ 2: It supergravity united model was carried out in [91, 92]. was realized early on [90] (see also [123]) that− the su- The supergravity analysis was extended in several persymmetric electro-weak corrections to the anomalous further works: [138, 139, 144–151] (for the current status magnetic moment of the muon in supergravity unified of proton decay vs experiment see [152, 153]). models could be of the same size as the electroweak : Soon after the formulation of supergravity corrections arising from the Standard Model. Specifi- grand unification it was observed [154–156] that with cally it was shown that the supersymmetric electroweak R parity conservation that the neutralino could be a corrections can be substantial for low lying charginos, candidate for dark matter. Later it was shown by compu- neutralinos and smuon states circulating in the loops. tation of the sparticle spectrum using RG evolution that This result was helpful when the Brookhaven experi- under color and charge conservation that the neutralino ment E821 was being conceived. The current data from was indeed the lightest supersymmetric particle and the Brookhaven experiment E821 [124] which measures being neutral it was in fact a viable candidate for dark 1 aµ = 2 (gµ 2) shows a deviation from the Standard matter [136]. The precision computation of relic density Model prediction− [125, 126] at the 3 σ level, i.e., it gives using integration over the poles in the annihilation of −11 δaµ = (287 80.) 10 . It remains to be seen if the neutralinos was given in [139, 157] using the technique observed deviation± × will survive in future improvement of used previously in the analysis of non-supersymmetric experiment and also further improvement in the analysis dark matter analyses [158]. Later on Dick and I worked of the hadronic correction. on the direct detection of dark matter [114, 146, 159– Supersymmetric signals: Subsequent to the develop- 162]. An analysis of the annual modulation effect on ment of the supergravity grand unification, its possible event rates in dark matter detectors was carried out in signatures at colliders were investigated. One of the [163]. Dick continued the work on dark matter with main focus was on jets, leptons and missing energy sig- other colleagues in later years (see e.g., [164]). nals [78, 88, 89]. Initially the analyses were for the on- shell decays of the W and Z boson [78, 88, 89, 116, 127] String inspired supergravity models: Since supergrav- ± ± 0 where an on-shell W decays via the chain W χ1 χ2 ity is the field point limit of strings, the string inspired − − 0 0 →+ − 0 with the further decays χ1 e νχ¯ 1 and χ2 ℓ ℓ χ1. supergravity models present an interesting class of high → ¯ → This leads to a trileptonic signal ℓ1ℓ2ℓ2 plus missing scale models for investigation. A number of models were transverse energy ET . These on-shell W decay analy- investigated in [165–171]. Some of the phenomena in- ses were limited by the constraint M ± + m 0 < M . χ1 χ2 W vestigated included µ eγ [172], charged lepton and However, in [128, 129] the analysis was extended to de- masses and mixings→ [169], and Higgs boson phe- cays when W and Z are off-shell. Here it was shown nomenology [170]. In [173] Yukawa couplings were com- that strong leptonic signals can arise even when W and puted for the model CP 3 CP 2/Z Z′ . In a later work × 3 × 3 8 detecting physics in the post GUT and string scales was pergravity unified models in the neutralino proton cross carried out [174]. sections vs the neutralino mass plane and− future detec- tors such as XENON1T [178] and LUX-ZEPLIN [179] Current status of SUGRA GUTs: The discovery of can test a very significant part of the parameter space the Higgs boson at 126 GeV has given strong support for of SUGRA models. The measurement of the Higgs bo- supergravity grand unification. Thus within the Stan- son mass at 126 GeV points to a SUSY mass scale in dard Model vacuum stability is not guaranteed beyond the TeV region. Such a mass scale provides the desired scales of Q 1011 GeV while in supergravity grand uni- loop correction needed to lift the tree level Higgs mass fication one∼ can allow for the stability of the vacuum to the experimentally measured value. It helps suppress up to GUT scales and beyond. Further, SUGRA GUT the flavor changing neutral current processes and also models predict the Higgs boson mass to lie below 130 helps stabilize the proton against decay via B&L violat- GeV [175] and it is quite remarkable that the observed∼ ing dimension five operators [180]. The RUN-II of the value of the Higgs mass obeys this upper limit giving sup- LHC will significantly expand the region of the parame- port to the idea of supergravity grand unification. The ter space of SUGRA models that will be probed [181]. It Higgs mass of 126 GeV leads to the average SUSY is hoped that the new data expected from LHC Run-II scale to lie in the∼ TeV region which in part explains the will provide us further evidence for the validity of super- non-observation of the sparticles thus far. Other virtues symmetry and for SUGRA grand unification (For recent of the SUGRA GUT model include an explanation of developments in SUGRA GUTs see, [182, 183]). how the electroweak symmetry breaks, i.e., it breaks via The memory of will live on through renormalization group effects. Thus it solves a major his many contributions to physics. He will also live on problem of the standard model where the Higgs mass is in the memory of those who were privileged to know assumed to be tachyonic in an ad hoc fashion. It should him. The Memorial Symposium at Texas A&M, College be noted that historically SUGRA GUT provided the Station, September 19-20 was a fitting tribute to the first hint that the top quark should be heavy, i.e., have a life and of Richard Arnowitt. Thanks to Marlan mass greater than 100 GeV [104]. Further, in SUGRA Scully and Roland Allen and the physics department at GUT one can show∼ that with charge and color conserva- Texas A&M for organizing the Memorial Symposium. tion that the lightest supersymmetric particle is the neu- tralino over most of the parameter space of the model and thus the neutralino is a possible candidate for dark matter under the assumption of R party conservation. Detailed analyses show that the relic density of neutrali- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS nos consistent with the WMAP [176] and Planck [177] data can be gotten. Additionally, the current dark mat- PN’s research is supported in part by the NSF grant ter experiments are probing the parameter space of su- PHY-1314774.

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