Published June 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Gaugino and scalar masses in the landscape

  • 1. DAMTP, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WA (United Kingdom)

Description

In this letter we demonstrate the genericity of suppressed gaugino masses Ma ∼ m3/2/ln (MPlanck/m3/2) in the IIB string landscape, by showing that this relation holds for D7-brane gauginos whenever the associated modulus is stabilised by nonperturbative effects. Although m3/2 and Ma take many different values across the landscape, the above small mass hierarchy is maintained. We show that it is valid for models with an arbitrary number of moduli and applies to both the KKLT and exponentially large volume approaches to Kaehler moduli stabilisation. In the latter case we explicitly calculate gaugino and moduli masses for compactifications on the two-modulus Calabi-Yau P4[1,1,1,6,9]. In the large-volume scenario we also show that soft scalar masses are approximately universal with mi2 ∼ m3/22(1+εi), with the non-universality parametrised by εi ∼ 1/ln (MP/m3/2)2 ∼ (1/1000). We briefly discuss possible phenomenological implications of our results

Availability note (English)

Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/1126-6708/2006/i=06/a=029/jhep062006029.pdf or at the Web site for the Journal of High Energy Physics (ISSN 1029-8479) http://www.iop.org/

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Journal Volume
2006
Journal Issue
06
Journal Page Range
p. 029
ISSN
1126-6708

INIS

Country of Publication
Italy
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
38001657
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
COMPACTIFICATION; MASS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SCALARS; SPARTICLES; SUPERSYMMETRY
Descriptors DEC
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FIELD THEORIES; POSTULATED PARTICLES; SYMMETRY