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Setting Limits on Supersymmetry Using Simplified Models
Published on: November 15, 2013
Sequestered gravity in gauge mediation
Ignatios Antoniadis1, Karim Benakli2, Mariano Quiros3
1Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7589, LPTHE, 75005 Paris, France ; CNRS, UMR 7589, LPTHE, 75005 Paris, France ; Albert Einstein Center, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Bern University, Sidlestrasse 5, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.
Abstract:
We present a novel mechanism of supersymmetry breaking embeddable in string theory and simultaneously sharing the main advantages of (sequestered) gravity and gauge mediation. It is driven by a Scherk-Schwarz deformation along a compact extra dimension, transverse to a brane stack supporting the supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model. This fixes the magnitude of the gravitino mass, together with that of the gauginos of a bulk gauge group, at a scale as high as [Formula: see text] GeV. Supersymmetry breaking is mediated to the observable sector dominantly by gauge interactions using massive messengers transforming non-trivially under the bulk and Standard Model gauge groups and leading to a neutralino LSP as dark matter candidate. The Higgsino mass [Formula: see text] and soft Higgs-bilinear [Formula: see text] term could be generated at the same order of magnitude as the other soft terms by effective supergravity couplings as in the Giudice-Masiero mechanism.
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