Dynamical SUSY Breaking in Meta-Stable Vacua
Abstract
Dynamical supersymmetry breaking in a long-lived meta-stable vacuum is a phenomenologically viable possibility. This relatively unexplored avenue leads to many new models of dynamical supersymmetry breaking. Here, we present a surprisingly simple class of models with meta-stable dynamical supersymmetry breaking: N=1 supersymmetric QCD, with massive flavors. Though these theories are strongly coupled, we definitively demonstrate the existence of meta-stable vacua by using the free-magnetic dual. Model building challenges, such as large flavor symmetries and the absence of an R-symmetry, are easily accommodated in these theories. Their simplicity also suggests that broken supersymmetry is generic in supersymmetric field theory and in the landscape of string vacua.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0602239,
title = {Dynamical SUSY Breaking in Meta-Stable Vacua},
author = {Kenneth Intriligator and Nathan Seiberg and David Shih},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0602239},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
48 pages, 1 figure, added discussion about the spectrum and some cosmological implications