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Destabilizing the gaugino condensate in modular invariant supergravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We investigate the stability of the hidden sector gaugino condensate in a SL(2,Z)-invariant supergravity model inspired by the E8*E8 heterotic string, using the chiral superfield formalism. We calculate the Planck-suppressed corrections to the ``truncated approximation'' for the condensate value and the scalar potential. A transition to a phase with zero condensate occurs near special points in moduli space and at large compactification radius. We discuss the implications for the T-modulus dependence of supersymmetry-breaking.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9909198,
  title  = {Destabilizing the gaugino condensate in modular invariant supergravity},
  author = {Thomas Dent},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9909198},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

12 pages, LaTeX, 3 ps figures; eq. 17 corrected, minor text changes, results unchanged

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