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Title: de Sitter Vacua via Consistent D Terms

Abstract

We introduce a new mechanism for producing locally stable de Sitter or Minkowski vacua, with spontaneously broken N=1 supersymmetry and no massless scalars, applicable to superstring and M-theory compactifications with fluxes. We illustrate the mechanism with a simple N=1 supergravity model that provides parametric control on the sign and the size of the vacuum energy. The crucial ingredient is a gauged U(1) that involves both an axionic shift and an R symmetry, and severely constrains the F- and D-term contributions to the potential.

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  1. Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Roma 'La Sapienza' and INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Rome (Italy)
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20699639
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Journal Name: Physical Review Letters; Journal Volume: 95; Journal Issue: 23; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.231602; (c) 2005 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; COMPACTIFICATION; DE SITTER GROUP; POTENTIALS; SCALARS; SUPERGRAVITY; SUPERSTRING MODELS; SUPERSYMMETRY; SYMMETRY BREAKING

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Villadoro, Giovanni, and Zwirner, Fabio. de Sitter Vacua via Consistent D Terms. United States: N. p., 2005. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.231602.
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@article{osti_20699639,
title = {de Sitter Vacua via Consistent D Terms},
author = {Villadoro, Giovanni and Zwirner, Fabio},
abstractNote = {We introduce a new mechanism for producing locally stable de Sitter or Minkowski vacua, with spontaneously broken N=1 supersymmetry and no massless scalars, applicable to superstring and M-theory compactifications with fluxes. We illustrate the mechanism with a simple N=1 supergravity model that provides parametric control on the sign and the size of the vacuum energy. The crucial ingredient is a gauged U(1) that involves both an axionic shift and an R symmetry, and severely constrains the F- and D-term contributions to the potential.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.231602},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 23,
volume = 95,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Dec 02 00:00:00 EST 2005},
month = {Fri Dec 02 00:00:00 EST 2005}
}
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DOI:  10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.231602
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