An Introduction to Explicit R-Parity Violation

Abstract

I discuss the theoretical motivations for R-parity violation, review the experimental bounds and outline the main changes in collider phenomenology compared to conserved R-parity. I briefly comment on the effects of R-parity violation on cosmology.

Comments: 18 pages, LaTex. Requires AXODRAW.STY and SPROCL.STY. To be published in "Perspectives on Supersymmetry", Edited by G.L. Kane, World Scientific. Reference added