Supersymmetry Breaking with Zero Vacuum Energy in M-Theory Flux Compactifications

doi:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.98.241601

Title: Supersymmetry Breaking with Zero Vacuum Energy in M-Theory Flux Compactifications

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An attractive mechanism to break supersymmetry in vacua with zero vacuum energy arose in E{sub 8}xE{sub 8} heterotic models with hidden sector gaugino condensate. An H flux balances the exponentially small condensate on shell and fixes the complex structure moduli. At quantum level this balancing is, however, obstructed by the quantization of the H flux. We show that the warped flux compactification background in heterotic M theory can solve this problem through a warp-factor suppression of the integer flux relative to the condensate. We discuss the suppression mechanism both in the M theory and the four-dimensional effective theory and provide a derivation of the condensate's superpotential which is free of delta-function squared ambiguities.

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Krause, Axel ^[1]

Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics, Department fuer Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Theresienstrasse 37, 80333 Munich (Germany)

Publication Date:: 2007-06-15

OSTI Identifier:: 20953279

Resource Type:: Journal Article

Journal Name:: Physical Review Letters

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 98; Journal Issue: 24; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.241601; (c) 2007 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; BALANCES; COMPACTIFICATION; CONDENSATES; DELTA FUNCTION; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; POTENTIALS; QUANTIZATION; SUPERSYMMETRY; SYMMETRY BREAKING

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                    Krause, Axel. Supersymmetry Breaking with Zero Vacuum Energy in M-Theory Flux Compactifications.  United States: N. p., 2007. 
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                    Krause, Axel. Supersymmetry Breaking with Zero Vacuum Energy in M-Theory Flux Compactifications.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.98.241601

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        "Supersymmetry Breaking with Zero Vacuum Energy in M-Theory Flux Compactifications".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.98.241601.

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  title        = {Supersymmetry Breaking with Zero Vacuum Energy in M-Theory Flux Compactifications},

  author       = {Krause, Axel},

  abstractNote = {An attractive mechanism to break supersymmetry in vacua with zero vacuum energy arose in E{sub 8}xE{sub 8} heterotic models with hidden sector gaugino condensate. An H flux balances the exponentially small condensate on shell and fixes the complex structure moduli. At quantum level this balancing is, however, obstructed by the quantization of the H flux. We show that the warped flux compactification background in heterotic M theory can solve this problem through a warp-factor suppression of the integer flux relative to the condensate. We discuss the suppression mechanism both in the M theory and the four-dimensional effective theory and provide a derivation of the condensate's superpotential which is free of delta-function squared ambiguities.},

  doi          = {10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.98.241601},

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  journal      = {Physical Review Letters},

  issn         = {0031-9007},

  number       = 24,

  volume       = 98,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {2007},

  month        = {6}

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