Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1995-03-06
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
20 pages, Latex file
Scientific paper
I study the spontaneous breakdown of supersymmetry when higher-dimensional Yang-Mills or the type-I $SO(32)$ string theory are compactified on magnetized tori. Because of the universal gyromagnetic ratio $g=2$, the splittings of all multiplets are given by the product of charge times internal helicity operators. As a result such compactifications have two remarkable and robust features: {\it (a)} they can reconcile {\it chirality} with {\it extended} low-energy supersymmetry in the limit of large tori, and {\it (b)} they can trigger gauge-symmetry breaking, via Nielsen-Olesen instabilities, at a scale tied classically to $m_{SUSY}$. I exhibit a compactification of the $SO(32)$ superstring, in which magnetic fields break spontaneously $N=4$ supersymmetry, produce the standard-model gauge group with three chiral families of quarks and leptons, and trigger electroweak symmetry breaking. I discuss supertrace relations and the ensuing ultraviolet softness. As with other known mechanisms of supersymmetry breaking, the one proposed here faces two open problems: the threat to perturbative calculability in the decompactification limit, and the problem of gravitational stability and in particular of the cosmological constant. I explain, however, why a good classical description of the vacuum may require small tadpoles for the dilaton, moduli and metric.
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