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Supersymmetry and the Lorentz Fine Tuning Problem

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-04-05 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

If physics at the Planck scale requires new conceptions of space-time, then generic renormalizable field theories predict observable violations of Lorentz invariance in the low energy sector. The little recognized ``Lorentz Fine Tuning Problem'' comes from logarithmic loop corrections which are not suppressed to the enormous extent commonly assumed. Fine-tuning of parameters at the Planck scale is one possible but unpalatable solution. Here we show that violation of Lorentz invariance is highly suppressed in a supersymmetric theory, the Wess-Zumino model. We conjecture that supersymmetry may be further motivated by yet another fine tuning problem of ordinary quantum field theories.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0502106,
  title  = {Supersymmetry and the Lorentz Fine Tuning Problem},
  author = {Pankaj Jain and John P. Ralston},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0502106},
  year   = {2010}
}

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9 pages, 1 figure

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