Phenomenological aspects of supersymmetry

Abstract

We discuss the possible applications supersymmetric theories might find in the field of elementary particle physics. The supersymmetric generalization of the $SU(3)\times SU(2)\times U(1)$ standard model is discussed in detail. Special attention has been devoted to the question of gauge coupling constant unification in the framework of supersymmetric grand unified models.

Comments: 37 pages, to appear in the Proceedings of workshop: Gauge theories applied supersymmetry and quantum gravity, Leuven, July 1995