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Setting Limits on Supersymmetry Using Simplified Models
Published on: November 15, 2013
de Sitter Vacua from an Anomalous Gauge Symmetry
Wilfried Buchmuller1, Markus Dierigl1, Fabian Ruehle1
1Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, 22607 Hamburg, Germany.
Abstract:
We find a new class of metastable de Sitter solutions in compactifications of six-dimensional supergravity motivated by type IIB or heterotic string vacua. Two Fayet-Iliopoulos terms of a local U(1) symmetry are generated by magnetic flux and by the Green-Schwarz term canceling the gauge anomalies, respectively. The interplay between the induced D term, the moduli dependence of the effective gauge coupling, and a nonperturbative superpotential stabilizes the moduli and determines the size of the extra dimensions.
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