Supersymmetry Breaking in the Anthropic Landscape

By L. Susskind. 2004

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In this paper I attempt to address a serious criticism of the “Anthropic Landscape” and “Discretuum” approach to cosmology, leveled by Banks, Dine and Gorbatov. I argue that in this new and unfamiliar setting, the gauge Hierarchy may not favor low energy supersymmetry. In a added note some considerations of Douglas which substantially strengthen the argument are explained.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. Ralph Blumenhagen
2. Andrei Linde
3. Eran Palti
4. S. Kachru
5. Frederik Denef
6. D. Lust
7. F. Quevedo
8. R. Kallosh

In Nuclear and High Energy Physics

1. Ralph Blumenhagen
2. Eran Palti
3. D. Lust
4. F. Quevedo
5. Frederik Denef
6. S. Kachru
7. R. Kallosh
8. Andrei Linde

Citations in the corpus

• Landscape, the scale of SUSY breaking, and inflation (2004, methodology): “Different points of view on this issue have been expressed in the literature, with the emphasis on statistics of string theory flux vacua [9, 10, 11, 12, 13].”
• The statistics of supersymmetric D-brane models (2004, background): “There is still an ongoing debate of whether the string landscape favours a low or a high supersymmetry breaking scale [18-20], but inspired by these string landscape ideas already new phenomenological models with high scale supersymmetry breaking have been proposed [21].”
• Statistical analysis of the supersymmetry breaking scale (2004, background): “I would like to thank S. Ashok, T. Banks, F. Denef, S. Dimopoulos, M. Dine, S. Kachru, G. Kane, G. Moore, B. Shiffman, L. Susskind, S. Thomas, S. Trivedi, L. Wang, M. Wise and S. Zelditch for valuable discussions.”
• Categorizing Different Approaches to the Cosmological Constant Problem (2004, background): “Several inflationary scenario’s [113, 114, 115], quantum cosmologies, [109, 116, 117, 118, 119] and string theory [111, 120, 121, 122] predict different domains of the universe, or even different universes, with widely varying values for the different coupling constants.”
• Predictive Landscapes and New Physics at a TeV (2005, background): “The fact that the distribution of F and D terms, if sufficiently uniform, will statistically favor high scale SUSY breaking on the landscape has been discussed in the context of stringy constructions in [39, 40, 41, 42].”
• Stringy corrections to Kahler potentials, SUSY breaking, and the cosmological constant problem (2004, background): “(See [ 43 ] for other comments on the supersymmetry breaking scale in the context of the landscape of string vacua, and [44] for related ideas for fine tuning scalar masses.)”
• Enumerating flux vacua with enhanced symmetries (2004, background): “In this subsection we discuss these vacua, beginning by describing precisely what is meant by the statement that a vacuum possesses an enhanced symmetry.”