Mixing-induced Spontaneous Supersymmetry Breaking
High Energy Physics - Theory
2011-08-23 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
It is conjectured that flavor mixing furnishes a universal mechanism for the spontaneous breaking of supersymmetry. The conjecture is proved explicitly for the mixing of two Wess--Zumino supermultiplets and arguments for its general validity are given. The mechanism relies on the fact that, despite mixing treats fermions and bosons symmetrically, both the fermionic and the bosonic zero point energies are shifted by a positive amount and this kind of shift does not respect supersymmetry.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1009.5041,
title = {Mixing-induced Spontaneous Supersymmetry Breaking},
author = {Antonio Capolupo and Marco Di Mauro and Alfredo Iorio},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.5041},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
5 pages, 1 figure, Eq(12) of V1 corrected to Eq(22), explicit off-shell formulation included, one reference added