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Title: Single-sector supersymmetry breaking, chirality, and unification

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
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  1. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Stanford, CA (United States); Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States)
  2. Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States); Inst. for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ (United States); Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States)

Calculable single-sector models provide an elegant framework for generating the flavor textures via compositeness, breaking supersymmetry, and explaining the electroweak scale. Such models may be realized naturally in supersymmetric QCD with additional gauge singlets, though it remains challenging to construct models without a surfeit of light exotic states where the standard model index emerges naturally. We classify possible single-sector models based on Sp confining supersymmetric QCD plus singlets according to their standard model index and number of composite messengers. Furthermore, this leads to simple, calculable models that spontaneously break supersymmetry, reproduce the fermion flavor hierarchy, and explain the standard model index dynamically with little or no additional matter. At low energies these theories realize a “more-minimal” soft spectrum with direct mediation and a gravitino lightest supersymmetric particle.

Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
1443094
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1101383
Report Number(s):
SLAC-PUB-14243; PRVDAQ
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, Vol. 83, Issue 1; ISSN 1550-7998
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 9 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

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