The Mass of the Dilaton

1994/02/16 by Haim Goldberg, Goldberg, Haim
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Computational Physics and Python Applications #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9402300

9 pages, LaTex, NUB-3083/93-Th

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Abstract

It is shown that, in a theory where the dilaton is coupled to a Yang-Mills gauge field which enters a confining phase at scale Λ, the dilaton may grow a mass m_dilaton∼ Λ²/m_Pl∼ (m_SUSY² m_Pl)^1/3∼ 10⁸ GeV. This allows ample time for decay before the electroweak era if m_SUSY≃ 1 TeV, and circumvents cosmological problems normally associated with its existence.

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