Counter-intuition and Scalar Masses
High Energy Physics - Theory
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The Bousso-Polchinski mechanism for discretely fine-tuning the cosmological constant favors a large bare negative cosmological constant. I argue (using generalizations of results of Klebanov and Tseytlin) that a similar mechanism for fine-tuning the scalar masses to small values favors a large bare negative (i.e. tachyonic) scalar mass. I comment briefly on the related issue of the role of low energy supersymmetry in string theory.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0407202,
title = {Counter-intuition and Scalar Masses},
author = {Eva Silverstein},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0407202},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
11 pages, harvmac big