Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1996-08-05
Phys.Rev. D54 (1996) 7561-7569
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
22 pages, harvmac, no figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.54.7561
Strongly coupled heterotic $E_8\times E_8$ string theory, compactified to four dimensions on a large Calabi-Yau manifold ${\bf X}$, may represent a viable candidate for the description of low-energy particle phenomenology. In this regime, heterotic string theory is adequately described by low-energy $M$-theory on ${\bf R}^4\times{\bf S}^1/{\bf Z}_2\times{\bf X}$, with the two $E_8$'s supported at the two boundaries of the world. In this paper we study the effects of gluino condensation, as a mechanism for supersymmetry breaking in this $M$-theory regime. We show that when a gluino condensate forms in $M$-theory, the conditions for unbroken supersymmetry can still be satisfied locally in the orbifold dimension ${\bf S}^1/{\bf Z}_2$. Supersymmetry is then only broken by the global topology of the orbifold dimension, in a mechanism similar to the Casimir effect. This mechanism leads to a natural hierarchy of scales, and elucidates some aspects of heterotic string theory that might be relevant to the stabilization of moduli and the smallness of the cosmological constant.
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