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Selected writings

On the current-field identity in quantum hadrodynamics (vector meson dominance):

• Norman M. Kroll, T. D. Lee, Bruno Zumino, Neutral Vector Mesons and the Hadronic Electromagnetic Current, Phys. Rev. 157, 1376 (1967) (arXiv:10.1103/PhysRev.157.1376)

On chiral perturbation theory:

• Sidney Coleman, Julius Wess, Bruno Zumino, Structure of Phenomenological Lagrangians. I, Phys. Rev. 177, 2239 (1969) (doi:10.1103/PhysRev.177.2239)

• Curtis Callan, Jr., Sidney Coleman, Julius Wess, Bruno Zumino, Structure of Phenomenological Lagrangians. II, Phys. Rev. 177, 2247 (1969) (doi:10.1103/PhysRev.177.2247)

Introducing the WZW term of chiral perturbation theory/quantum hadrodynamics which reproduces the chiral anomaly of QCD in the effective field theory of mesons and Skyrmions:

• Julius Wess, Bruno Zumino, Consequences of anomalous Ward identities, Phys. Lett. B 37 (1971) 95-97 (spire:67330, doi:10.1016/0370-2693(71)90582-X)

Introducing supersymmetry for quantum field theory on 4d spacetime:

• Julius Wess, Bruno Zumino, Supergauge transformations in four dimensions, Nucl. Phys. B70 (1974) 39; Phys. Letters 49B (1974) 52 (doi:10.1142/9789814542340_0002)

Introducing super Yang-Mills theory:

• Sergio Ferrara, Bruno Zumino, Supergauge invariant Yang-Mills theories, Nuclear Physics B 79 3 (1974) 413-421 (doi:10.1016/0550-3213(74)90559-8)

Making manifest the local worldsheet supersymmetry of the spinning string (via the supersymmetric Polyakov action):

• Stanley Deser, Bruno Zumino, A complete action for the spinning string, Physics Letters B 65 4 (1976) 369-373 (pdf)

On supergravity formulated on super spacetime supermanifolds (“superspace”):

• Julius Wess, Bruno Zumino, Superspace formulation of supergravity, Phys. Lett. B 66 (1977) 361-364 [doi:10.1016/0370-2693(77)90015-6]

• Richard Grimm, Julius Wess, Bruno Zumino, A complete solution of the Bianchi identities in superspace with supergravity constraints, Nuclear Phys. B 152 (1979) 255-265 [doi:10.1016/0550-3213(79)90102-0]

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• Wess-Zumino gauge

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