Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2001-06-19
Phys.Rev.Lett. 87 (2001) 231601
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
12 pages, no figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.231601
The region of moduli space of string theories which is most likely to describe the "real world" is where the string coupling is about unity and the volume of extra compact dimensions is about the same size as the string volume. Here we map the landscape of this "central" region in a model-independent way, assuming only that the string coupling and compact volume moduli are chiral superfields of N=1 supergravity in 4 dimensions, and requiring only widely accepted conditions: that the supersymmetry (SUSY) breaking scale is about the weak scale and that the cosmological constant be of acceptably small magnitude. We find that the superpotential has (in the supersymmetric limit) a fourth order zero in the SUSY breaking direction. The potential near the minimum is very steep in the SUSY preserving directions, and very flat in the SUSY breaking direction, consequently the SUSY breaking field has a weak scale mass, while other moduli are heavy. We also argue that there will be additional near by minima with a large negative cosmological constant.
Brustein Ram
de Alwis Senarath P.
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