Supersymmetry breaking and soft terms in M-theory

1997/07/16 by Hans Peter Nilles, H. P. Nilles, Marek Olechowski +3 · 8 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Gaugino #Gravitino #Heterotic string theory #Hidden sector #Observable #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Quantum mechanics #String theory #Supergravity #Supersymmetry #Supersymmetry breaking #Theoretical physics #hep-ph #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0370-2693(97)01212-4

published as Phys.Lett. B415 (1997) 24-30 · 9 pages, latex, no figures

arxiv created 1997/07/16 · openalex publication_date 1997/12/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We investigate gaugino condensation in the framework of the strongly coupled heterotic E₈ × E₈ string (M--theory). Supersymmetry is broken in a hidden sector and gravitational interactions induce soft breaking parameters in the observable sector. The resulting soft masses are of order of the gravitino mass. The situation is similar to that in the weakly coupled E₈ × E₈ theory with one important difference: we avoid the problem of small gaugino masses which are now comparable to the gravitino mass.

Citations

• Gluino condensation in superstring models
• Eleven-dimensional supergravity on a manifold with boundary
• Towards a theory of soft terms for the supersymmetric standard model
• Heterotic and Type I string dynamics from eleven dimensions
• Model-independent analysis of soft terms in effective supergravity and in string theory

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