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A supergravity explanation of the CDF event
We present a unified no-scale supergravity model with a light gravitino that
can naturally explain the observed event at CDF via
right-handed selectron pair-production. The full spectrum of our model can be
described in terms of a single parameter and can be distinguished from
alternative proposals in the literature. Ongoing and future runs at LEP 2
should be able to probe the full allowed parameter space via acoplanar diphoton
events from production.Comment: 10 pages, LaTeX, 4 figures (included
Closing the Universe by relaxing the cosmological constant
We propose a string-inspired model which correlates several aspects of
particle physics and cosmology. Inspired by the flat directions and the absence
of adjoint Higgs representations found in typical string models, we consider a
no-scale supergravity model. This model entails well
determined low-energy phenomenology, such as the value of the neutralino dark
matter relic abundance and a negative contribution to the vacuum energy. A
positive contribution to the vacuum energy is also typically present in string
theory as a consequence of the running of the fundamental constants towards
their fixed point values. If these two contributions cancel appropriately, one
may end up with a vacuum energy which brings many cosmological observations
into better agreement with theoretical expectations. The present abundance of
neutralinos would then be fixed. We delineate the regions of parameter space
allowed in this scenario, and study the ensuing predictions for the sparticle
and Higgs-boson masses in this model.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures (included), Latex, CTP-TAMU-06/9
Identification of large masses of citrus fruit and rice fields in eastern Spain
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M-theory Inspired No-scale Supergravity
We propose a supergravity model that contains elements recently shown to
arise in the strongly-coupled limit of the heterotic string
(M-theory), including a no-scale--like K\"ahler potential, the identification
of the string scale with the gauge coupling unification scale, and the onset of
supersymmetry breaking at an intermediate scale determined by the size of the
eleventh dimension of M-theory. We also study the phenomenological consequences
of such scenario, which include a rather constrained sparticle spectrum within
the reach of present-generation particle accelerators.Comment: 8 pages, LaTeX, 3 figures (included
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