Published September 30, 2002 | Version v1
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Weak scale supersymmetry without weak scale supergravity

  • 1. Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742 (United States)

Description

It is generally believed that weak scale supersymmetry implies weak scale supergravity, in the sense that the masses of the gravitino and gravitationally coupled moduli have masses below 100 TeV. This Letter presents a realistic framework for supersymmetry breaking in which these masses can be much larger. This solves the cosmological problems of hidden sector models. Supersymmetry breaking is communicated to the visible sector by anomaly-mediated supersymmetry breaking. The framework is compatible with perturbative gauge coupling unification and can be realized either in models of 'warped' extra dimensions or in strongly coupled four-dimensional conformal field theories

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Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
89
Journal Issue
14
Journal Page Range
p. 141801-141801.4
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO

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(c) 2002 The American Physical Society