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Title: Pure gravity mediation and spontaneous B–L breaking from strong dynamics

Abstract

In pure gravity mediation (PGM), the most minimal scheme for the mediation of supersymmetry (SUSY) breaking to the visible sector, soft masses for the standard model gauginos are generated at one loop rather than via direct couplings to the SUSY-breaking field. In any concrete implementation of PGM, the SUSY-breaking field is therefore required to carry nonzero charge under some global or local symmetry. As we point out in this note, a prime candidate for such a symmetry might be B–L, the Abelian gauge symmetry associated with the difference between baryon number Band lepton number L. The F-term of the SUSY-breaking field then not only breaks SUSY, but also B–L, which relates the respective spontaneous breaking of SUSY and B–Lat a fundamental level. As a particularly interesting consequence, we find that the heavy Majorana neutrino mass scale ends up being tied to the gravitino mass, ΛN~m3/2. Furthermore, assuming nonthermal leptogenesis to be responsible for the generation of the baryon asymmetry of the universe, this connection may then explain why SUSY necessarily needs to be broken at a rather high energy scale, so that m3/2≳1000 TeV in accord with the concept of PGM. We illustrate our idea by means of a minimalmore » model of dynamical SUSY breaking, in which B–Lis identified as a weakly gauged flavor symmetry. We also discuss the effect of the B–L gauge dynamics on the superparticle mass spectrum as well as the resulting constraints on the parameter space of our model. In particular, we comment on the role of the B–LD-term.« less

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Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK (United States)
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USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1236278
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OSTI ID: 1310492
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SC0010108
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Published Article
Journal Name:
Nuclear Physics. B
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Nuclear Physics. B Journal Volume: 905 Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0550-3213
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
Netherlands
Language:
English
Subject:
73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS

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Babu, Kaladi S., Schmitz, Kai, and Yanagida, Tsutomu T. Pure gravity mediation and spontaneous B–L breaking from strong dynamics. Netherlands: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2016.01.023.
Babu, Kaladi S., Schmitz, Kai, & Yanagida, Tsutomu T. Pure gravity mediation and spontaneous B–L breaking from strong dynamics. Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2016.01.023
Babu, Kaladi S., Schmitz, Kai, and Yanagida, Tsutomu T. Fri . "Pure gravity mediation and spontaneous B–L breaking from strong dynamics". Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2016.01.023.
@article{osti_1236278,
title = {Pure gravity mediation and spontaneous B–L breaking from strong dynamics},
author = {Babu, Kaladi S. and Schmitz, Kai and Yanagida, Tsutomu T.},
abstractNote = {In pure gravity mediation (PGM), the most minimal scheme for the mediation of supersymmetry (SUSY) breaking to the visible sector, soft masses for the standard model gauginos are generated at one loop rather than via direct couplings to the SUSY-breaking field. In any concrete implementation of PGM, the SUSY-breaking field is therefore required to carry nonzero charge under some global or local symmetry. As we point out in this note, a prime candidate for such a symmetry might be B–L, the Abelian gauge symmetry associated with the difference between baryon number Band lepton number L. The F-term of the SUSY-breaking field then not only breaks SUSY, but also B–L, which relates the respective spontaneous breaking of SUSY and B–Lat a fundamental level. As a particularly interesting consequence, we find that the heavy Majorana neutrino mass scale ends up being tied to the gravitino mass, ΛN~m3/2. Furthermore, assuming nonthermal leptogenesis to be responsible for the generation of the baryon asymmetry of the universe, this connection may then explain why SUSY necessarily needs to be broken at a rather high energy scale, so that m3/2≳1000 TeV in accord with the concept of PGM. We illustrate our idea by means of a minimal model of dynamical SUSY breaking, in which B–Lis identified as a weakly gauged flavor symmetry. We also discuss the effect of the B–L gauge dynamics on the superparticle mass spectrum as well as the resulting constraints on the parameter space of our model. In particular, we comment on the role of the B–LD-term.},
doi = {10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2016.01.023},
journal = {Nuclear Physics. B},
number = C,
volume = 905,
place = {Netherlands},
year = {Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}

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