2004/07/07 by Michael Dine, Elie Gorbatov, S. Thomas +1 · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-ph #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2008/08/098
published as JHEP0808:098,2008 · latex, 19 pages
arxiv created 2004/07/07 · openalex publication_date 2008/08/28 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
There has been some debate as to whether the landscape does or does not predict low energy supersymmetry. We argue that under rather mild assumptions, the landscape seems to favor such breaking, quite possibly at a very low scale. Some of the issues which must be addressed in order to settle these questions are the relative frequency with which tree level and non-perturbative effects generate expectation values for auxillary fields and the superpotential, as well as the likelihood of both R- and non-R discrete or accidental symmetries. Alternate scenarios with warped compactifications or large extra dimensions are also discussed.