2006/08/31 by Michael Dine, Jonathan L. Feng, Eva Silverstein
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Gauge (firearms) #Geometry #Mathematics #Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Philosophy #Physics #Simple (philosophy) #Standard Model (mathematical formulation) #Superpotential #Supersymmetry #Supersymmetry breaking #Symmetry (geometry) #Symmetry breaking #Theoretical physics #hep-ph #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.74.095012
published as Phys.Rev.D74:095012,2006 · 15 pages, harvmac big
arxiv created 2006/09/05 · openalex publication_date 2006/11/30 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We provide a method for obtaining simple models of supersymmetry breaking, with all small mass scales generated dynamically, and illustrate it with explicit examples. We start from models of perturbative supersymmetry breaking, such as O'Raifeartaigh and Fayet models, that would respect an R symmetry if their small input parameters transformed as the superpotential does. By coupling the system to a pure supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory (or a more general supersymmetric gauge theory with dynamically small vacuum expectation values), these parameters are replaced by powers of its dynamical scale in a way that is naturally enforced by the symmetry. We show that supersymmetry breaking in these models may be straightforwardly mediated to the supersymmetric standard model, obtain complete models of direct gauge mediation, and comment on related model building strategies that arise in this simple framework.