Eur. Phys. J. C (2009) 59: 213-221
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-008-0707-2

Review

Supersymmetry and superstring phenomenology

University of California, Berkeley, USA

^* e-mail: gaillard@thsrv.lbl.gov

Received: 8 May 2008
Published online: 4 September 2008

Abstract

We briefly cover the early history of supersymmetry, describe the relation of SUSY quantum field theories to superstring theories and explain why they are considered a likely tool to describe the phenomenology of high energy particle theory beyond the Standard Model.