The edge of supersymmetry: Stability walls in heterotic theory
Abstract
We explicitly describe, in the language of four-dimensional N = 1 supersymmetric field theory, what happens when the moduli of a heterotic Calabi-Yau compactification change so as to make the internal non-Abelian gauge fields non-supersymmetric. At the edge of the region in Kähler moduli space where supersymmetry can be preserved, an additional anomalous U(1) gauge symmetry appears in the four-dimensional theory. The D-term contribution to the scalar potential associated to this U(1) attempts to force the system back into a supersymmetric configuration and provides a consistent low-energy description of gauge bundle stability.
- Authors:
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- Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ (United States). School of Natural Sciences; Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (United States)
- Oxford Univ., Oxford (United Kingdom)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1201592
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG02-95ER40893
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physics Letters B
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 677; Journal Issue: 3-4; Journal ID: ISSN 0370-2693
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; four-dimensional N=1 supersymmetric field theory
Citation Formats
Anderson, Lara B., Gray, James, Lukas, Andre, and Ovrut, Burt. The edge of supersymmetry: Stability walls in heterotic theory. United States: N. p., 2009.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2009.05.025.
Anderson, Lara B., Gray, James, Lukas, Andre, & Ovrut, Burt. The edge of supersymmetry: Stability walls in heterotic theory. United States. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2009.05.025.
Anderson, Lara B., Gray, James, Lukas, Andre, and Ovrut, Burt. Fri .
"The edge of supersymmetry: Stability walls in heterotic theory". United States. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2009.05.025. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1201592.
@article{osti_1201592,
title = {The edge of supersymmetry: Stability walls in heterotic theory},
author = {Anderson, Lara B. and Gray, James and Lukas, Andre and Ovrut, Burt},
abstractNote = {We explicitly describe, in the language of four-dimensional N = 1 supersymmetric field theory, what happens when the moduli of a heterotic Calabi-Yau compactification change so as to make the internal non-Abelian gauge fields non-supersymmetric. At the edge of the region in Kähler moduli space where supersymmetry can be preserved, an additional anomalous U(1) gauge symmetry appears in the four-dimensional theory. The D-term contribution to the scalar potential associated to this U(1) attempts to force the system back into a supersymmetric configuration and provides a consistent low-energy description of gauge bundle stability.},
doi = {10.1016/j.physletb.2009.05.025},
journal = {Physics Letters B},
number = 3-4,
volume = 677,
place = {United States},
year = {2009},
month = {5}
}
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