Phenomenological aspects of supersymmetry

For a critical assessment of the present status of SUSY phenomenology a series of seminars was organized from May to November 1991 at the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik in Munich. The intention was to present the most recent results and to initiate discussions between field theorists and phenomenologists. The subjects covered include an introduction to the basic features of SUSY models, in particular the minimal supersymmetric standard model. This is followed by discussions of SUSY's implications for direct searches at future colliders, effects in rare processes, quantum effects in the Higgs sector, and cosmology. A special section is devoted to dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking where SUSY can be used to solve the fine-tuning problem in a natural way. This predicts a mass of the top quark consistent with the bounds obtained from the precision LEP data and W mass measurements. See hints under the relevant topics. (orig.)