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Duality cascade of softly broken supersymmetric theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-02-20 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We study the duality cascade of softly broken supersymmetric theories. We investigate the renormalization group (RG) flow of SUSY breaking terms as well as supersymmetric couplings. It is found that the magnitudes of SUSY breaking terms are suppressed in most regimes of the RG flow through the duality cascade. At one stage of cascading, the gaugino mass of the strongly coupled sector and scalar masses converge to certain values, which are determined by the gauge coupling and the gaugino mass of the weakly coupled sector. At the next stage, the strongly and weakly coupled sectors are interchanged with each other. We also show the possibility that cascading would be terminated by the gauge symmetry breaking, which is induced by the so-called B-term.

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@article{arxiv.0810.5451,
  title  = {Duality cascade of softly broken supersymmetric theories},
  author = {Hiroyuki Abe and Tetsutaro Higaki and Tatsuo Kobayashi and Kazutoshi Ohta and Yuji Omura and Haruhiko Terao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.5451},
  year   = {2009}
}

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25 pages, 5 figures

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