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Supersymmetric codimension-two branes and U(1)_R mediation in 6D gauged supergravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-12-10 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We construct a consistent supersymmetric action for brane chiral and vector multiplets in a six-dimensional chiral gauged supergravity. A nonzero brane tension can be accommodated by allowing for a brane-localized Fayet-Iliopoulos term proportional to the brane tension. When the brane chiral multiplet is charged under the bulk U(1)_R, we obtain a nontrivial coupling to the extra component of the U(1)_R gauge field strength as well as a singular scalar self-interaction term. Dimensionally reducing to 4D on a football supersymmetric solution, we discuss the implication of such interactions for obtaining the U(1)_R D-term in the 4D effective supergravity. By assuming the bulk gaugino condensates and nonzero brane F- and/or D-term for the uplifting potential, we have all the moduli stabilized with a vanishing cosmological constant. The brane scalar with nonzero R charge then gets a soft mass of order the gravitino mass. The overall sign of the soft mass squared depends on the sign of the R charge as well as whether the brane F- or D-term dominates.

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@article{arxiv.0803.2683,
  title  = {Supersymmetric codimension-two branes and U(1)_R mediation in 6D gauged supergravity},
  author = {Hyun Min Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0803.2683},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

28 pages, no figures, version to appear in JHEP