2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/107300These lectures provide a simple introduction to supersymmetry breaking. After presenting the basics of the subject and illustrating them in tree-level examples, we discuss dynamical supersymmetry breaking, emphasizing the role of holomorphy and symmetries in restricting dynamically-generated superpotentials. We then turn to mechanisms for generating the MSSM supersymmetry-breaking terms, including ``gravity mediation'', gauge mediation, and anomaly mediation. We clarify some confusions regarding the decoupling of heavy fields in general and D-terms in particular in models of anomaly-mediation.26 pages. Lectures given at the Les Houches Summer School (Session LXXXIV) on ``Particle Physics Beyond the Standard Model'', Les Houches, France, August 1-26, 2005High Energy Physics - Theorytext