Supersymmetry breaking, open strings and M-theory

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DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00806-2zbMATH Open0944.81028arXivhep-th/9807011OpenAlexW3105954860MaRDI QIDQ1572017FDOQ1572017

E. Dudas, I. Antoniadis, Augusto Sagnotti

Publication date: 12 July 2000

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study supersymmetry breaking by Scherk-Schwarz compactifications in type I string theory. While in the gravitational sector all mass splittings are proportional to a (large) compactification radius, supersymmetry remains unbroken for the massless excitations of D-branes orthogonal to the large dimension. In this sector, supersymmetry breaking can then be mediated by gravitational interactions alone, that are expected to be suppressed by powers of the Planck mass. The mechanism is non perturbative from the heterotic viewpoint and requires a compactification radius at intermediate energies of order 10^{12}-10^{14} GeV. This can also explain the value of Newton's constant if the string scale is close to the unification scale, of order 10^{16} GeV.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9807011




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