The flavour of supersymmetry
Prof. U. Nierste (Universität Karlsruhe)

The Standard Model of Elementary Particles is expected to break down at the energies probed by the Large Hadron Collider. The most popular class of extensions of the Standard Model are supersymmetric theories, in which each fermion has a bosonic partner and vice versa. After recalling the deficiencies of the Standard Model I motivate the ideas of grand unification and supersymmetry. Then I show how flavour physics helps to constrain the parameter space of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. Finally I discuss how the flavour structures of the quark and lepton sectors could be related to each other in supersymmetric grand unifed theories.