Supersymmetry breaking, open strings and M-theory

Details Supersymmetry breaking, open strings and M-theory Supersymmetry breaking, open strings and M-theory

1998-07-02

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9807011v2

Nucl.Phys. B544 (1999) 469-502

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

47 pages, LaTeX, typos corrected

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00806-2

We study supersymmetry breaking by Scherk-Schwarz compactifications in type I string theory. While in the gravitational sector all mass splittings are proportional to a (large) compactification radius, supersymmetry remains unbroken for the massless excitations of D-branes orthogonal to the large dimension. In this sector, supersymmetry breaking can then be mediated by gravitational interactions alone, that are expected to be suppressed by powers of the Planck mass. The mechanism is non perturbative from the heterotic viewpoint and requires a compactification radius at intermediate energies of order 10^{12}-10^{14} GeV. This can also explain the value of Newton's constant if the string scale is close to the unification scale, of order 10^{16} GeV.

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