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Explicit breaking of supersymmetry by non-perturbative effects

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Instanton effects in a family of completely massive Higgs models with N=1 supersymmetry are investigated. The models have Nc=2N_c=2 and Nf2N_f\ge 2. In each model, we show that a certain gauge invariant correlation function depends in a non-trivial way on its coordinates, in spite of the fact that supersymmetry requires its constancy. This means that non-perturbative effects break supersymmetry explicitly in the one instanton sector. We also show that condensates arising in the point-like limit of the above correlation functions can in principle be used to induce the Electro-Weak scale.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9412186,
  title  = {Explicit breaking of supersymmetry by non-perturbative effects},
  author = {A. Casher and V. Elkonin and Y. Shamir},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9412186},
  year   = {2007}
}

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LaTeX, 15 pages. Uses epsf for 5 in-text figures