Supergravity

Supergravity

Beyond the Standard Model
Simulated Large Hadron Collider CMS particle detector data depicting a Higgs boson produced by colliding protons decaying into hadron jets and electrons
Standard Model
Evidence
  • Hierarchy problem
  • Dark matter
  • Cosmological constant problem
  • Strong CP problem
  • Neutrino oscillation
Theories
  • Technicolor
  • Kaluza–Klein theory
  • Grand Unified Theory
  • Theory of everything
  • String theory
  • Superfluid vacuum theory
Supersymmetry
  • MSSM
  • Superstring theory
  • Supergravity
Quantum gravity
  • String theory
  • Loop quantum gravity
  • Causal dynamical triangulation
  • Canonical quantum gravity
  • Superfluid vacuum theory
Experiments
  • Gran Sasso
  • INO
  • LHC
  • SNO
  • Super-K
  • Tevatron

In theoretical physics, supergravity (supergravity theory) is a field theory that combines the principles of supersymmetry and general relativity. Together, these imply that, in supergravity, the supersymmetry is a local symmetry (in contrast to non-gravitational supersymmetric theories, such as the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model). Since the generators of supersymmetry (SUSY) are convoluted with the Poincaré group to form a super-Poincaré algebra, it can be seen that supergravity follows naturally from supersymmetry.

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