Cosmological constant in SUGRA models with Planck scale SUSY breaking and degenerate vacua

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2014.08.027MaRDI QIDQ2355040zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors C. Froggatt, R. Nevzorov, Anthony W. Thomas, Holger Bech Nielsen

Publication date 27 July 2015

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.1001

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05) Supergravity (83E50)

Abstract: The empirical mass of the Higgs boson suggests small to vanishing values of the quartic Higgs self--coupling and the corresponding beta function at the Planck scale, leading to degenerate vacua. This leads us to suggest that the measured value of the cosmological constant can originate from supergravity (SUGRA) models with degenerate vacua. This scenario is realised if there are at least three exactly degenerate vacua. In the first vacuum, associated with the physical one, local supersymmetry (SUSY) is broken near the Planck scale while the breakdown of the SU(2)_W imes U(1)_Y symmetry takes place at the electroweak (EW) scale. In the second vacuum local SUSY breaking is induced by gaugino condensation at a scale which is just slightly lower than Lambda_{QCD} in the physical vacuum. Finally, in the third vacuum local SUSY and EW symmetry are broken near the Planck scale.

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