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Dynamical Superfield Theory of Free Massive Superspin-1 Multiplet

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-07 v3

Abstract

We construct an N=1 supersymmetric Lagrangian model for the massive superspin-1 superfield. The model is described by a dynamical spinor superfield and an auxiliary chiral scalar superfield. On-shell this model leads to a spin-1/2, spin-3/2 and two spin-1 propagating component fields. The superfield action is given and its structure in the fermionic component sector is presented. We prove that the most general theory is characterized by a one parameter family of actions. The massless limit is shown to correspond to the dynamics of both the gravitino and superhelicity-1/2 multiplets.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0207243,
  title  = {Dynamical Superfield Theory of Free Massive Superspin-1 Multiplet},
  author = {I. L. Buchbinder and S. James Gates and W. D. Linch and J. Phillips},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0207243},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

13 pages, no figures, revision contains a new footnote in section 5 with some equations modified