2009/09/30 by Matthew Buican, Zohar Komargodski · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Formalism (music) #Gauge (firearms) #Gauge theory #Hidden sector #Homogeneous space #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Scalar (mathematics) #Supersymmetric gauge theory #Supersymmetry #Supersymmetry breaking #hep-ph #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/jhep02(2010)005
published as JHEP 1002:005,2010 · 22 pages, 2 figures; references added
openalex publication_date 2010/02/01 · arxiv created 2010/02/10 · arxiv updated 2010/04/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
In theories of phyiscs beyond the Standard Model (SM), visible sector fields often carry quantum numbers under additional gauge symmetries. One could then imagine a scenario in which these extra gauge symmetries play a role in transmitting supersymmetry breaking from a hidden sector to the Supersymmetric Standard Model (SSM). In this paper we present a general formalism for studying the resulting hidden sectors and calculating the corresponding gauge mediated soft parameters. We find that a large class of generic models features a leading universal contribution to the soft scalar masses that only depends on the scale of Higgsing, even if the model is strongly coupled. As a by-product of our analysis, we elucidate some IR aspects of the correlation functions in General Gauge Mediation. We also discuss possible phenomenological applications.