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Mildly sequestered supergravity models and their realization in string theory

Claudio Scrucca, Christopher John Andrey

We elaborate on the idea that five-dimensional models where sequestering is spoiled due to contact interactions induced by vector multiplets may still be mildly sequestered if a global version of the gauge symmetry associated to the latter survives in the ...

2010

Globally and locally supersymmetric effective theories for light fields

Claudio Scrucca, Leonardo Brizi

We reconsider the general question of how to characterize most efficiently the low-energy effective theory obtained by integrating out heavy modes in globally and locally supersymmetric theories. We consider theories with chiral and vector multiplets and i ...

2009

Gaugino mass in AdS space

Riccardo Rattazzi, Claudio Scrucca

We study supersymmetric QED in AdS(4) with massless matter. At 1-loop the ultra-violet regulator of the theory generates a contribution to the gaugino mass that is naively inconsistent with unbroken supersymmetry. We show that this effect, known in flat sp ...

2009

Constraints from F and D supersymmetry breaking in general supergravity theories

Claudio Scrucca

We study the conditions under which a generic supergravity model involving chiral and vector multiplets can admit vacua with spontaneously broken supersymmetry and realistic cosmological constant. We find that the existence of such viable vacua implies som ...

2008

De Sitter vacua in no-scale supergravities and Calabi-Yau string models

Claudio Scrucca

We perform a general analysis on the possibility of obtaining metastable vacua with spontaneously broken N = 1 supersymmetry and non-negative cosmological constant in the moduli sector of string models. More specifically, we study the condition under which ...

2008

Soft masses in superstring models with anomalous U(1) symmetries

Claudio Scrucca

We analyze the general structure of soft scalar masses emerging in superstring models involving anomalous U(1) symmetries, with the aim of characterizing more systematically the circumstances under which they can happen to be flavor universal. We consider ...

2007

Chiral Asymmetry from a 5D Higgs Mechanism

An intriguing feature of the Standard Model is that the representations of the unbroken gauge symmetries are vector-like whereas those of the spontaneously broken gauge symmetries are chiral. Here we provide a toy model which shows that a natural explanati ...

2007

Locally stable non-supersymmetric Minkowski vacua in supergravity

Claudio Scrucca

We perform a general study about the existence of non-supersymmetric minima with vanishing cosmological constant in supergravity models involving only chiral superfields. We study the conditions under which the matrix of second derivatives of the scalar po ...

2006

Causality, analyticity and an IR obstruction to UV completion

Riccardo Rattazzi, Arthur Adams

We argue that certain apparently consistent low-energy erective field theories described by local, Lorentz-invariant Lagrangians, secretly exhibit macroscopic non-locality and cannot be embedded in any UV theory whose S-matrix satisfies canonical analytici ...

2006

D-type supersymmetry breaking and brane-to-brane gravity mediation

Riccardo Rattazzi, Claudio Scrucca

We revisit the issue of gravitational contributions to soft masses in five-dimensional sequestered models. We point out that, unlike for the case of F-type supersymmetry breaking, for D-type breaking these effects generically give positive soft masses squa ...

2005