Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2008-12-01
JHEP 0901:056,2009
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
20 pages. v2: one comment added in the introduction, minor improvements, typos fixed. Version to appear in JHEP
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2009/01/056
We study under what conditions massive fields can be "frozen" rather than integrated out in certain four dimensional theories with global or local N=1 supersymmetry. We focus on models without gauge fields, admitting a superpotential of the form W = W0(H) + epsilon W1(H,L), with epsilon << 1, where H and L schematically denote the heavy and light chiral superfields. We find that the fields H can always be frozen to constant values H0, if they approximately correspond to supersymmetric solutions along the H directions, independently of the form of the Kahler potential K for H and L, provided K is sufficiently regular. In supergravity W0 is required to be of order epsilon at the vacuum to ensure a mass hierarchy between H and L. The backreaction induced by the breaking of supersymmetry on the heavy fields is always negligible, leading to suppressed F^H--terms. For factorizable Kahler potentials W0 can instead be generic. Our results imply that the common way complex structure and dilaton moduli are stabilized, as in Phys. Rev. D 68 (2003) 046005 by Kachru et al., for instance, is reliable to a very good accuracy, provided W0 is small enough.
Gallego Diego
Serone Marco
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