SuperHiggs Mechanism in String Theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-11 v1
Abstract
We exhibit the superHiggs effect in heterotic string theory by turning on a background NS-NS field and deforming the BRST operator consistent with superconformal invariance. The NS-NS field spontaneously breaks spacetime supersymmetry. We show how the gravitini and the physical dilatini gain mass by eating the would-be Goldstone fermions.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0502107,
title = {SuperHiggs Mechanism in String Theory},
author = {Jonathan Bagger and Ioannis Giannakis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0502107},
year = {2009}
}
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Six pages