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Light field integration in SUGRA theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-12-31 v4 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We revisit the integration of fields in N=1 Supergravity with the requirement that the effective theory has a reliable two-derivative supersymmetric description. In particular we study, in a supersymmetric manifest way, the situation where the fields that are mapped out have masses comparable to the Supersymmetry breaking scale and masses of the remaining fields. We find that as long as one stands in regions of the field configuration space where the analytic continuation to superspace of the F-flatness conditions be reliable equations of motion for the fields that are being mapped out, and provided their solutions are stable regardless the dynamics of the remaining fields, such a two-derivative description is a reliable truncation of the full effective theory. The study is mainly focused to models with two chiral sectors, H and L, described by a Kaehler invariant function with schematic dependencies of the form G=G_H(H,\bar H)+G_L(L,\bar L), which leads to a nearly decoupled theory that allows the previous requirements to be easily satisfied in a consistent way. Interestingly enough for the matters of our study this kind of models present an scenario that is as safe as the one presented in sequestered models. It is also possible to allow gauge symmetries as long as these appear also factorized in hidden and visible sectors. Then, the integration of the hidden vector superfields is compulsory and proceeds reliably through the D-flatness condition analytically continued to superspace.

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@article{arxiv.1301.6177,
  title  = {Light field integration in SUGRA theories},
  author = {Diego Gallego},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.6177},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

20 pages. v2: references added, minor improvements and clarifications. v3: Conclusions slightly changed due to major clarifications. Abstract changed. References, two sections and an appendix added. v4: comment added about the space-time region for the results validity. Version acepted for plublication

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