The Spectrum of Goldstini and Modulini
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Cheung, Clifford
D'Eramo, Francesco
Thaler, Jesse
Date Issued
August 2011
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Journal of High Energy Physics
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Springer-Verlag
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Cheung, Clifford, Francesco D’Eramo, and Jesse Thaler. “The spectrum of goldstini and modulini.” Journal of High Energy Physics 2011.8 (2011).
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Abstract
When supersymmetry is broken in multiple sectors via independent dynamics, the theory furnishes a corresponding multiplicity of “goldstini” degrees of freedom which may play a substantial role in collider phenomenology and cosmology. In this paper, we explore the tree-level mass spectrum of goldstini arising from a general admixture of F -term, D -term, and almost no-scale supersymmetry breaking, employing non-linear superfields and a novel gauge fixing for supergravity discussed in a companion paper. In theories of F -term and D -term breaking, goldstini acquire a mass which is precisely twice the gravitino mass, while the inclusion of no-scale breaking renders one of these modes, the modulino, massless. We argue that the vanishing modulino mass can be explained in terms of an accidental and spontaneously broken “global” supersymmetry.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep08(2011)115
