Soft supersymmetry breaking in KKLT flux compactification

Mar, 2005
27 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 718 (2005) 113-133
e-Print:
Report number:
  • IFT-05-05,
  • KAIST-TH-2005-04,
  • DESY-05-052

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Abstract:
We examine the structure of soft supersymmetry breaking terms in KKLT models of flux compactification with low energy supersymmetry. Moduli are stabilized by fluxes and nonperturbative dynamics while a de Sitter vacuum is obtained by adding supersymmetry breaking anti-branes. We discuss the characteristic pattern of mass scales in such a set-up as well as some features of 4D N=1 supergravity breakdown by anti-branes. Anomaly mediation is found to always give an important contribution and one can easily arrange for flavor-independent soft terms. In its most attractive realization, the modulus mediation is comparable to the anomaly mediation, yielding a quite distinctive sparticle spectrum. In addition, the axion component of the modulus/dilaton superfield dynamically cancels the relative CP phase between the contributions of anomaly and modulus mediation, thereby avoiding dangerous SUSY CP violation.
Note:
  • minor corrections, references added, version accepted in NPB Report-no: IFT-05-05, KAIST-TH 2005/04, DESY-05-052
  • 04.65.+e
  • 11.25.-w
  • string model
  • supersymmetry: symmetry breaking
  • compactification: flux
  • fermion: flavor
  • supergravity
  • membrane model: D-brane
  • membrane model: p-brane
  • p-brane: 3