Brane Supersymmetry Breaking and the Cosmological Constant: Open Problems
High Energy Physics - Theory
2016-09-06 v1
Abstract
It has recently been argued that non--BPS brane world scenarios can reproduce the small value of the cosmological constant that seems to have been measured. Objections against this proposal are discussed and necessary (but not sufficient) conditions are stated under which it may work. At least n=2 extra dimensions are needed. Also, the mass matrix in the supergravity sector must satisfy . Moreover, the proposal can be ruled out experimentally if Newton's constant remains unchanged down to scales of 10 micrometers. If, on the other hand, such a ``running Newton constant'' is observed, it could provide crucial experimental input for superstring phenomenology.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0104131,
title = {Brane Supersymmetry Breaking and the Cosmological Constant: Open Problems},
author = {Christof Schmidhuber},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0104131},
year = {2016}
}