The lightest scalar in theories with broken supersymmetry

DOI10.1007/JHEP11(2011)013MaRDI QIDQ2261191zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Leonardo Brizi, C. A. Scrucca

Publication date 6 March 2015

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.1596

zbMATH Keywords

sigma modelssupersymmetric gauge theorysupersymmetry breaking

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

Abstract: We study the scalar mass matrix of general supersymmetric theories with local gauge symmetries, and derive an absolute upper bound on the lightest scalar mass. This bound can be saturated by suitably tuning the superpotential, and its positivity therefore represents a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of metastable vacua. It is derived by looking at the subspace of all those directions in field space for which an arbitrary supersymmetric mass term is not allowed and scalar masses are controlled by supersymmetry-breaking splitting effects. This subspace includes not only the direction of supersymmetry breaking, but also the directions of gauge symmetry breaking and the lightest scalar is in general a linear combination of fields spanning all these directions. We present explicit results for the simplest case of theories with a single local gauge symmetry. For renormalizable gauge theories, the lightest scalar is a combination of the Goldstino partners and its square mass is always positive. For more general non-linear sigma models, on the other hand, the lightest scalar can involve also the Goldstone partner and its square mass is not always positive.

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• A bound on the superpotential
• Effects of heavy modes on vacuum stability in supersymmetric theories
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