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Metastable supergravity vacua with F and D supersymmetry breaking

Claudio Scrucca

We study the conditions under which a generic supergravity model involving chiral and vector multiplets can admit viable metastable vacua with spontaneously broken supersymmetry and realistic cosmological constant. To do so, we impose that on the vacuum th ...

2007

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

Living dangerously with low-energy supersymmetry

Riccardo Rattazzi

We stress that the lack of direct evidence for supersymmetry forces the soft mass parameters to lie very close to the critical line separating the broken and unbroken phases of the electroweak gauge symmetry. We argue that the level of criticality, or fine ...

2006

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

On the decoupling of heavy modes in Kaluza-Klein theories

In this paper we examine the 4-dimensional effective theory for the light Kaluza-Klein (KK) modes. Our main interest is in the interaction terms. We point out that the contribution of the heavy KK modes is generally needed in order to reproduce the correct ...

2006

Gravitational quantum corrections in warped supersymmetric brane worlds

Riccardo Rattazzi, Claudio Scrucca

We study gravitational quantum corrections in supersymmetric theories with warped extra dimensions. We develop for this a superfield formalism for linearized gauged supergravity. We show that the 1-loop effective Kahler potential is a simple functional of ...

2005

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

Vacuum decay on a brane world

Sylvain Bréchet

The bubble nucleation rate for a first order phase transition occurring on a brane world is calculated. Both the Coleman-de Luccia thin wall instanton and the Hawking-Moss instanton are considered. The results are compared with the corresponding nucleation ...

American Physical Society2005

Electroweak symmetry breaking after LEP1 and LEP2

Riccardo Rattazzi

In a generic "universal" theory of electroweak symmetry breaking, simple symmetry considerations and absence of tuning imply that heavy new physics affects the low-energy data through four parameters. These include and properly extend the generally insuffi ...

2004

Gauge-Higgs unification in orbifold models

Claudio Scrucca, Andrea Wulzer

Six-dimensional orbifold models where the Higgs field is identified with some internal component of a gauge field are considered. We classify all possible T-2/Z(N) orbifold constructions based on a SU(3) electroweak gauge symmetry. Depending on the orbifol ...

2004