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Goldstino superfields for spontaneously broken N=2 supersymmetry

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-05-28 v2

Abstract

We examine spontaneously broken N=2 supersymmetry in four dimensions and associate a spinor superfield with each Goldstino via a finite supersymmetry transformation with parameters that are the Grassmann coordinates of N=2 superspace. Making use of a special choice of coset parametrization allows us to develop a version of nonlinearly realized N=2 supersymmetry for which the associated Goldstino superfields are defined on harmonic superspace, thereby providing a natural mechanism for construction of a Goldstino action. The corresponding superfield Lagrangian is an O(4) multiplet. This property is used to reformulate the Goldstino action in projective superspace and in conventional N=2 superspace. We show how to generate matter couplings of the Goldstinos to supersymmetric matter using the N=2 harmonic, projective and full superspaces. As a bi-product of our consideration, we also derive an N=2 chiral Goldstino action.

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@article{arxiv.1105.3001,
  title  = {Goldstino superfields for spontaneously broken N=2 supersymmetry},
  author = {S. M. Kuzenko and I. N. McArthur},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.3001},
  year   = {2015}
}

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