Effects of heavy modes on vacuum stability in supersymmetric theories

DOI10.1007/JHEP11(2010)134zbMATH Open1294.81318arXiv1009.0668MaRDI QIDQ406718FDOQ406718

Authors: Leonardo Brizi, C. A. Scrucca 

Publication date: 29 August 2014

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

Abstract: We study the effects induced by heavy fields on the masses of light fields in supersymmetric theories, under the assumption that the heavy mass scale is much higher than the supersymmetry breaking scale. We show that the square-masses of light scalar fields can get two different types of significant corrections when a heavy multiplet is integrated out. The first is an indirect level-repulsion effect, which may arise from heavy chiral multiplets and is always negative. The second is a direct coupling contribution, which may arise from heavy vector multiplets and can have any sign. We then apply these results to the sGoldstino mass and study the implications for the vacuum metastability condition. We find that the correction from heavy chiral multiplets is always negative and tends to compromise vacuum metastability, whereas the contribution from heavy vector multiplets is always positive and tends on the contrary to reinforce it. These two effects are controlled respectively by Yukawa couplings and gauge charges, which mix one heavy and two light fields respectively in the superpotential and the Kahler potential. Finally we also comment on similar effects induced in soft scalar masses when the heavy multiplets couple both to the visible and the hidden sector.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.0668

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zbMATH Keywords

dS vacua in string theorysupergravity modelssupersymmetric effective theoriessupersymmetry breaking

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Supergravity (83E50)

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