Howard Baer is Homer L. Dodge Professor of High Energy Physics at the University of Oklahoma. He specializes in theoretical particle physics and cosmology, working on collider physics, supersymmetry, LHC and dark matter. He has published over 200 articles in refereed journals.

• Preface; 1. The Standard Model; 2. What lies beyond the Standard Model; 3. The Wess-Zumino model; 4. The supersymmetry algebra; 5. Superfield formalism; 6. Supersymmetric gauge theories; 7. Supersymmetry breaking; 8. The Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model; 9. Implications of the MSSM; 10. Local supersymmetry; 11. Realistic supersymmetric models; 12. Sparticle production at colliders; 13. Sparticle decays; 14. Supersymmetric event generation; 15. The search for supersymmetry at colliders; 16. R parity violation; 17. Epilogue; Appendices.

"Baer and Tata's Weak Scale Supersymmetry is the most phenomenological text, closest to what will be needed to make detailed interpretations of the data...Baer and Tata's book is a good introduction to practical supersymmetry theory and offers a helpful chapter on the superspace formalism and material on possible ways of breaking supersymmetry." Gordon Kane, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Physics Today