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Includes index , Introduction -- A crash course on Weyl spinors -- New notation for the components of Weyl spinors -- The physics of Weyl, Majorana, and Dirac spinors -- Building the simplest supersymmetric lagrangian -- The supersymmetric charges and their algebra -- Applications of the SUSY algebra -- Adding interactions: the Wess-Zumino model -- Some explicit calculations -- Supersymmetric gauge theories -- Superspace formalism -- Left-chiral superfields -- Supersymmetric gauge field theories in the superfield approach -- SUSY breaking -- Introduction to the minimal supersymmetric standard model -- Some phenomenological implications of the MSSM