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Breaking CP and supersymmetry with orbifold moduli dynamics

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-11-18 v5 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We consider the stabilization of string moduli and resulting soft supersymmetry-breaking terms in heterotic string orbifolds. Among the results obtained are: formulae for the scalar interaction soft terms without integrating out the hidden sector gaugino condensate, which reduce to standard expressions in the usual "truncated" limit; an expression for the modular transformation of A-terms; a study of the minima of the scalar potential in the Kaehler modulus direction; and a discussion of the implications for CP violation phenomenology. Some closely related results have appeared in a recent paper of Khalil, Lebedev and Morris, namely the exact modular invariance of A-terms up to unitary mixing, and the existence of certain complex minima for the moduli.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0110110,
  title  = {Breaking CP and supersymmetry with orbifold moduli dynamics},
  author = {Thomas Dent},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0110110},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

32 p, latex, 8 eps figs, amssymb, graphicx. The complete D.Phil. thesis (dated September 2000) is at http://feynman.physics.lsa.umich.edu/~tdent/webthesis.ps.gz . v5: final version, discussion updated to reflect revised results of Khalil et al

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