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Soft Supersymmetry Breaking in KKLT Flux Compactification

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We examine the structure of soft supersymmetry breaking terms in KKLT models of flux compactification with low energy supersymmetry. Moduli are stabilized by fluxes and nonperturbative dynamics while a de Sitter vacuum is obtained by adding supersymmetry breaking anti-branes. We discuss the characteristic pattern of mass scales in such a set-up as well as some features of 4D N=1 supergravity breakdown by anti-branes. Anomaly mediation is found to always give an important contribution and one can easily arrange for flavor-independent soft terms. In its most attractive realization, the modulus mediation is comparable to the anomaly mediation, yielding a quite distinctive sparticle spectrum. In addition, the axion component of the modulus/dilaton superfield dynamically cancels the relative CP phase between the contributions of anomaly and modulus mediation, thereby avoiding dangerous SUSY CP violation.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0503216,
  title  = {Soft Supersymmetry Breaking in KKLT Flux Compactification},
  author = {Kiwoon Choi and Adam Falkowski and Hans Peter Nilles and Marek Olechowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0503216},
  year   = {2008}
}

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minor corrections, references added, version accepted in NPB