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Scanning of the supersymmetry breaking scale and the gravitino mass in supergravity

Published inThe journal of high energy physics, vol. 1606, p. 120-140
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Publication date2016
Abstract

We consider the minimal three-form N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 1 supergravity coupled to nilpotent three-form chiral superfields. The supersymmetry breaking is sourced by the three-forms of the chiral multiplets, while the value of the gravitino mass is controlled by the three-form of the supergravity multiplet. The three-forms can nucleate membranes which scan both the supersymmetry breaking scale and the gravitino mass. The peculiar supergravity feature that the cosmological constant is the sum of a posictive contribution from the super-symmetry breaking scale and a negative contribution from the gravitino mass makes the cosmological constant jump. This can lead to a phenomenologically allowed small value of the cosmological constant even though the supersymmetry breaking scale and the gravitino mass are dynamically large.

Keywords
  • P-branes
  • Supergravity Models
  • Supersymmetry Breaking
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FARAKOS, Fotis et al. Scanning of the supersymmetry breaking scale and the gravitino mass in supergravity. In: The journal of high energy physics, 2016, vol. 1606, p. 120–140. doi: 10.1007/JHEP06(2016)120
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