Fayet-Iliopoulos terms in supergravity without gauged R-symmetry
High Energy Physics - Theory
2018-05-09 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We construct a supergravity-Maxwell theory with a novel embedding of the Fayet-Iliopoulos D-term, leading to spontaneous supersymmetry breaking. The gauging of the R-symmetry is not required and a gravitino mass is allowed for a generic vacuum. When matter couplings are introduced, an uplift through a positive definite contribution to the scalar potential is obtained. We observe a notable similarity to the uplift constructions and we give a natural description in terms of constrained multiplets.
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@article{arxiv.1712.08601,
title = {Fayet-Iliopoulos terms in supergravity without gauged R-symmetry},
author = {Niccolò Cribiori and Fotis Farakos and Magnus Tournoy and Antoine Van Proeyen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.08601},
year = {2018}
}
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23 pages, version 3, new appendix on electric-magnetic duality and updated references