SOFT SUPERSYMMETRY BREAKING INDUCED BY HIGHER-DERIVATIVE SUPERGRAVITATION IN THE ELECTROWEAK STANDARD MODEL

Authors
HINDAWI A OVRUT BA WALDRAM D
Citation
A. Hindawi et al., SOFT SUPERSYMMETRY BREAKING INDUCED BY HIGHER-DERIVATIVE SUPERGRAVITATION IN THE ELECTROWEAK STANDARD MODEL, Physics letters. Section B, 381(1-3), 1996, pp. 154-162
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physics letters. Section B → ACNP
ISSN journal
03702693
Volume
381
Issue
1-3
Year of publication
1996
Pages
154 - 162
Database
ISI
SICI code
0370-2693(1996)381:1-3<154:SSBIBH>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
We show how spontaneous supersymmetry breaking in the vacuum state of higher-derivative supergravity is transmitted, as explicit soft supers ymmetry-breaking terms, to the effective Lagrangian of the standard el ectroweak model. The general structure of the soft supersymmetry break ing terms is presented and a new scenario for understanding the gauge hierarchy problem, based on the functional form of these terms, is dis cussed.