Published February 15, 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

Duality cascade of softly broken supersymmetric theories

  • 1. Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502 (Japan)
  • 2. Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578 (Japan)
  • 3. Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502 (Japan)
  • 4. Department of Physics, Nara Women's University, Nara 630-8506 (Japan)

Description

We study the duality cascade of softly broken supersymmetric theories. We investigate the renormalization group (RG) flow of SUSY breaking terms as well as supersymmetric couplings. It is found that the magnitudes of SUSY breaking terms are suppressed in most regimes of the RG flow through the duality cascade. At one stage of cascading, the gaugino mass of the strongly coupled sector and scalar masses converge to certain values, which are determined by the gauge coupling and the gaugino mass of the weakly coupled sector. At the next stage, the strongly and weakly coupled sectors are interchanged with each other. We also show the possibility that cascading would be terminated by the gauge symmetry breaking, which is induced by the so-called B-term.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
79
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 045003-045003.11
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
41010853
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
COUPLING; DUALITY; GAUGE INVARIANCE; MASS; RENORMALIZATION; STRONG-COUPLING MODEL; SUPERSYMMETRY; SYMMETRY BREAKING; WEAK-COUPLING MODEL
Descriptors DEC
INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEAR MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; SYMMETRY

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