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Mixing-induced spontaneous supersymmetry breaking
Alfredo IorioMarco Di MauroMarco Di MauroAntonio Capoluposubject
High Energy Physics - TheoryCondensed Matter::Quantum GasesPhysicsHigh Energy Physics::LatticeSpontaneous symmetry breakingHigh Energy Physics::PhenomenologyFOS: Physical sciencesGeneral Physics and AstronomySupersymmetrySupersymmetry breakingHigh Energy Physics - PhenomenologyHigh Energy Physics::TheoryExplicit symmetry breakingTheoretical physicsHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)Quantum mechanicsSymmetry breakingQuantum field theoryChiral symmetry breakingMixing (physics)description
It is conjectured that flavor mixing furnishes a universal mechanism for the spontaneous breaking of supersymmetry. The conjecture is proved explicitly for the mixing of two Wess--Zumino $\mathcal{N}=1$ supermultiplets and arguments for its general validity are given. The mechanism relies on the fact that, despite mixing treats fermions and bosons symmetrically, both the fermionic and the bosonic zero point energies are shifted by a positive amount and this kind of shift does not respect supersymmetry.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-09-25 | Physics Letters A |