Cosmological implications of dynamical supersymmetry breaking

1993/08/18 by Tom Banks, David B. Kaplan, Ann E. Nelson · 36 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.49.779

published as Phys.Rev.D49:779-787,1994 · 24 pages (uses harvmac) UCSD/PTH 93-26, RU-37

arxiv created 1993/08/18 · openalex publication_date 1994/01/15 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We provide a taxonomy of dynamical supersymmetry-breaking theories, and discuss the cosmological implications of the various types of models. Models in which supersymmetry breaking is produced by chiral superfields which only have interactions of gravitational strength (e.g., string theory moduli) are inconsistent with standard big bang nucleosynthesis unless the gravitino mass is greater than \AA3 \ifmmode×\else\texttimes\fi 10⁴ GeV. This problem cannot be solved by inflation. Models in which supersymmetry is dynamically broken by renormalizable interactions in flat space have no such cosmological problems. Supersymmetry can be broken either in a hidden or the visible sector. However, hidden sector models suffer from several naturalness problems and have difficulties in producing an acceptably large gluino mass.

Citations

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