2-11 October 2008
San Carlos, Sonora, México
America/Hermosillo timezone
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Contribution

San Carlos, Sonora, México - Room 4: Arrecife

Tree-level matastable SUSY-breaking with D-terms

Speakers

  • Brooks THOMAS

Primary authors

Description

We present a simple construction in which metastable vacua occur classically and in which supersymmetry-breaking is sourced by both D-terms and F-terms. All the relevant dynamics in the scenario described here is perturbative, hence calculations of vacuum energies and lifetimes can be performed explicitly. (In most other metastable SUSY-breaking models, these quantities are obscured by nonperturbative dynamics or unspecified high-scale physics required to stabilize runaway directions in the potential.) We also discuss how scenarios of this sort arise naturally from string theory.