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Hidden Sector Supergravity Breakdown
Gravity mediated supersymmetry breakdown originated from a study of gaugino
condensation in a hidden sector. We review this mechanism of supergravity
breakdown from the original formulation in the early eighties to its natural
implementation in superstring theory and M-theory. In the latter case hidden
and observable sector become separated geometrically and supersymmetry is
broken dynamically on a hidden wall.Comment: 14 pages, Latex, Invited talk presented at the symposium "Thirty
Years of Supersymmetry", University of Minnesota, October 13-15, 200
M-branes at angles
Supersymmetric configurations of non-orthogonally intersecting M-5-branes can
be obtained by rotation of one of a pair of parallel M-5-branes. Examples
preserving 1/4, 3/16 and 1/8 supersymmetry are reviewed.Comment: 5pp Latex. To appear in proceedings of 1997 Trieste conference on
"Duality Symmetries in String Theory - II". Minor correction
The Status of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model and Beyond
The minimal supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model (MSSM) is
reviewed. In the most general framework with minimal field content and R-parity
conservation, the MSSM is a 124-parameter model (henceforth called MSSM-124).
An acceptable phenomenology occurs only at exceptional points (and small
perturbations around these points) of MSSM-124 parameter space. Among the
topics addressed in this review are: gauge coupling unification, precision
electroweak data, phenomenology of the MSSM Higgs sector, and supersymmetry
searches at present and future colliders. The implications of approaches beyond
the MSSM are briefly addressed.Comment: 17 pages, LaTeX, with espcrc2.sty style file, to appear in the
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Supersymmetries in Physics
(SUSY 97
Supersymmetry breaking in M-theory
We describe the breaking of supersymmetry in M-theory by coordinate dependent
(Scherk-Schwarz) compactification of the eleventh dimension. Supersymmetry is
spontaneously broken in the gravitational and moduli sector and communicated to
the observable sector, living at the end-point of the semicircle, by radiative
gravitational interactions. This mechanism shares the generic features of
non-perturbative supersymmetry breaking by gaugino condensation, in the
presence of a constant antisymmetric field strength, in the weakly coupled
regime of the heterotic string, which suggests that both mechanisms could be
related by duality. In particular an analysis of supersymmetric transformations
in the infinite-radius limit reveals the presence of a discontinuity in the
spinorial parameter, which coincides with the result found in the presence of
gaugino condensation, while the condensate is identified with the quantized
parameter entering the boundary conditionsComment: 10 pages, latex + espcrc2.sty, no figures. Based on talks given at
the 5th International Conference on Supersymmetries in Physics, SUSY 97, May
27-31, 1997, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; and, International
Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, HEP 97, 19-26 August,
Jerusalem, Israe
Flat Higgs Potential from Planck Scale Supersymmetry Breaking
The observed Higgs boson mass poses a new puzzle in addition to the
longstanding problem of the origin of the electroweak scale; the shallowness of
the Higgs potential. The Higgs quartic coupling even seems to vanish at around
the Planck scale within the uncertainties of the top quark mass and the strong
gauge coupling. We show that the shallowness of the Higgs potential might be an
outcome of supersymmetry breaking at around the Planck scale. There, the
electroweak fine-tuning in the Higgs quadratic terms leads to an almost
vanishing quartic coupling at around the Planck scale.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure
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