Dynamical SUSY breaking in meta-stable vacua

By K. Intriligator, N. Seiberg, David Shih. 2006

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Dynamical supersymmetry breaking in a long-lived meta-stable vacuum is a phenomenologically viable possibility. This relatively unexplored avenue leads to many new models of dynamical supersymmetry breaking. Here, we present a surprisingly simple class of models with meta-stable dynamical supersymmetry breaking: = 1 supersymmetric QCD, with massive flavors. Though these theories are strongly coupled, we definitively demonstrate the existence of meta-stable vacua by using the free-magnetic dual. Model building challenges, such as large flavor symmetries and the absence of an R-symmetry, are easily accommodated in these theories. Their simplicity also suggests that broken supersymmetry is generic in supersymmetric field theory and in the landscape of string vacua.

Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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• Supersymmetric Gauge Theories, Intersecting Branes and Free Fermions (2007, background): “Even more appealing would be to understand metastable non-supersymmetric gauge theories in terms of I-branes [80, 81].”
• Extra)ordinary gauge mediation (2007, methodology): “This is precisely what happens, for instance, in massive SQCD in the free-magnetic phase [26].”
• Mini-Split (2012, positive): “This encompasses a wide range of calculable SUSY-breaking sectors, including ISS [34], the canonical O’Raifeartaigh model [35], and the ITIY model [36, 37].”
• Brane tilings and their applications (2008, background): “has recently been discovered [260] that the SQCD with massive quarks has metastable vacua, which can be made to have arbitrary long lifetime.”
• The Cosmological Constant and the String Landscape (2006, background): “e should certainly be treated as tentative, at the very least until we have a nonperturbative formulation of string theory. • The landscape opens up a difficult but rich spectrum of new questions, e.g. [78]. • There are undoubtedly many surprises in the future. Let me close with a quotation from Dirac”
• Supersymmetry breaking, R-symmetry breaking and metastable vacua (2007, methodology): “the recent work of [ 7 ] suggests that metastable supersymmetry breaking is generic in field”
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• Lectures on supersymmetry breaking (2007, neutral): “Pb”
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• The State of Supersymmetry after Run I of the LHC (2013, background): “Thus SUSY is spontaneously broken in this theory by the so-called rank condition [72].”