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Exploring the SO(32) Heterotic String
We give a complete classification of Z_N orbifold compactification of the
heterotic SO(32) string theory and show its potential for realistic model
building. The appearance of spinor representations of SO(2n) groups is analyzed
in detail. We conclude that the heterotic SO(32) string constitutes an
interesting part of the string landscape both in view of model constructions
and the question of heterotic-type I duality.Comment: 21 pages, 5 figure
The Higgs Mechanism in Heterotic Orbifolds
We study spontaneous gauge symmetry breaking in the framework of orbifold
compactifcations of heterotic string theory. In particular we investigate the
electroweak symmetry breakdown via the Higgs mechanism. Such a breakdown can be
achieved by continuous Wilson lines. Exploiting the geometrical properties of
this scheme we develop a new technique which simplifies the analysis used in
previous discussions.Comment: 38 pages, 10 figure
Possible astrophysical signatures of heavy stable neutral relics in supergravity models
We consider heavy stable neutral particles in the context of supergravity and
show that a gravitationally suppressed inflaton decay can produce such
particles in cosmologically interesting abundances within a wide mass range
. In gravity-mediated
supersymmetry breaking models, a heavy particle can decay into its superpartner
and a photon-photino pair or a gravitino. Such decays only change the identity
of a possible dark matter candidate. However, for , astrophysical bounds from gamma-ray background and
photodissociation of light elements can be more stringent than the overclosure
bound, thus ruling out the particle as a dark matter candidate.Comment: 12 page
Supergravity Inflation Free from Harmful Relics
We present a realistic supergravity inflation model which is free from the
overproduction of potentially dangerous relics in cosmology, namely moduli and
gravitinos which can lead to the inconsistencies with the predictions of baryon
asymmetry and nucleosynthesis. The radiative correction turns out to play a
crucial role in our analysis which raises the mass of supersymmetry breaking
field to intermediate scale. We pay a particular attention to the non-thermal
production of gravitinos using the non-minimal Kahler potential we obtained
from loop correction. This non-thermal gravitino production however is
diminished because of the relatively small scale of inflaton mass and small
amplitudes of hidden sector fields.Comment: 10 pages, revtex, 1 eps figure, references added, conclusion section
expande
Geometric scaling in high-energy QCD at nonzero momentum transfer
We show how one can obtain geometric scaling properties from the
Balitsky-Kovchegov (BK) equation. We start by explaining how, this property
arises for the b-independent BK equation. We show that it is possible to extend
this model to the full BK equation including momentum transfer. The saturation
scale behaves like max(q,Q_T) where q is the momentum transfer and Q_T a
typical scale of the target.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures. Talk given by G. Soyez at the "Rencontres de
Moriond", 12-19 March 2005, La Thuile, Ital
Small SUSY phases in string-inspired supergravity
In supersymmetric models, there are new CP violating phases which, if
unsuppressed, would give a too large neutron electric dipole moment. We examine
the possibility of small SUSY phases in string-inspired supergravity models in
which supersymmetry is broken by the auxiliary components of the dilaton and
moduli superfields. It is found that the SUSY phases can be suppressed by a
small factor governing the breakdown of the approximate Peccei Quinn symmetries
nonlinearly realized for the moduli superfields that participate in
supersymmetry breaking. In many cases, the symmetry breaking factors are
exponentially small for moderately large values of the moduli, leading to small
phase values in a natural way.Comment: 15pages, Latex, SNUTP 93-8
Gauged extended supergravity without cosmological constant: no-scale structure and supersymmetry breaking
We consider the interplay of duality symmetries and gauged isometries of
supergravity models giving N-extended, spontaneously broken supergravity with a
no-scale structure. Some examples, motivated by superstring and M-theory
compactifications are described.Comment: AMS-LaTeX, 16 pages. Invited paper to appear in the review section of
the IJMP
Higher-dimensional perturbations of the vacuum energy density
The vacuum energy density arising from the broken supersymmetry of the
(standard-model) fields living on a brane cannot be fully "off-loaded" to the
bulk: even assuming the existence of an effective "self-tuning" mechanism, a
small fraction of the transferred energy "bunces back" to the brane, as a
backreaction of the supersymmetry breaking gravitationally transmitted to the
bulk. In that case the SUSY scale of the brane has to be bounded, to guarantee
the consistency of such a residual energy density with current large-scale
phenomonological constraints. This effect is illustrated by computing the
zero-point energies of the tower of (higher-dimensional) massive states
associated to tensor metric fluctuations on a brane embedded in a warped bulk
geometry, and it is shown to be independent of the number of compact or
non-compact extra dimensions.Comment: 10 pages, no figures, to appear in JHE
Longevity of supersymmetric flat directions
We examine the fate of supersymmetric flat directions. We argue that the
non-perturbative decay of the flat direction via preheating is an unlikely
event. In order to address this issue, first we identify the physical degrees
of freedom and their masses in presence of a large flat direction VEV (Vacuum
Expectation Value). We explicitly show that the (complex) flat direction and
its fermionic partner are the only light {\it physical} fields in the spectrum.
If the flat direction VEV is much larger than the weak scale, and it has a
rotational motion, there will be no resonant particle production at all. The
case of multiple flat directions is more involved. We illustrate that in many
cases of physical interest, the situation becomes effectively the same as that
of a single flat direction, or collection of independent single directions. In
such cases preheating is not relevant. In an absence of a fast non-perturbative
decay, the flat direction survives long enough to affect thermalization in
supersymmetric models as described in hep-ph/0505050 and hep-ph/0512227. It can
also ``terminate'' an early stage of non-perturbative inflaton decay as
discussed in hep-ph/0603244.Comment: 9 revtex pages, v3: expanded discussion on two flat directions, minor
modifications, conclusions unchange
Supersymmetric with Large Chargino Contributions
Supersymmetric (SUSY) theories are often thought to give large branching
ratios for from charged Higgs loops. We show that in
many cases chargino loop contributions can cancel those of the Higgs, and SUSY
can give at or below the \SM\ prediction. We show
this occurs because the large stop mass splittings usually found in SUSY break
a GIM mechanism suppression. These effects are strongly enhanced by large
, so that is very sensitive to the value
of , contrary to what has been claimed. We also note that the
supergravity relation is somewhat disfavored over the general
case.Comment: TRI-PP-93-66. 12pp (Plain LATEX)+4 fig not incl. PostScript file of
figs available (~3MB), contact Corrie Kost [email protected]. Request hardcopy
or FAX of figures through [email protected]
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