English

Supersymmetry and Broken Symmetries at High Temperature

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-30 v3 Astrophysics

Abstract

It is generally believed that internal symmetries are necessarily restored at high temperature in supersymmetric theories. We provide simple and natural counterexamples to this no-go theorem for systems having a net background charge. We exemplify our findings on abelian models, for both cases of global and local symmetries and discuss their possible implications.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9702319,
  title  = {Supersymmetry and Broken Symmetries at High Temperature},
  author = {Antonio Riotto and Goran Senjanović},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9702319},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Four pages, LaTeX file; a couple of refs. added. Final version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett