Low Energy Supersymmetry in Warped Brane Worlds

We discuss physical implications of the four-dimensional effective supergravity, that describes low-energy physics of the Randall--Sundrum model with moduli fields in the bulk and charged chiral matter living on the branes. Cosmological constant can be cancelled through the introduction of a brane Polonyi field and a brane superpotential for the 4d dilaton. We deduce a generalization of the effective 4d action to the case of a general, not necessarily exponential, warp factor. We note, that breakdown of supersymmetry in generic warped models may lead to the stabilization of the interbrane distance.Comment: 9 pages, Latex, Talk given at SUSY'01, June 11-17 2001, Dubna, Russi

Dynamical mass scale and approximate scaling symmetry in the Higgs sector

We investigate basic consequences of the assumption that the mass scale of the perturbative sector responsible for the spontaneous symmetry breaking is generated dynamically in a theory with a large UV scale. It is assumed that in addition to an elementary scalar there exists an additional scalar, a modulus, which controls the dynamical hierarchy of scales in the manner similar to that of supersymmetric gaugino condensation. It is shown that a light degree of freedom appears that couples to the gauge bosons and to charged fermions in a specific way which is different from the couplings of the dilaton of the exact scale invariance.Comment: 10 pages, no figure

Warped brane world supergravity, flipping, and the Scherk-Schwarz mechanism

We demonstrate the relation between the Scherk-Schwarz mechanism and flipped gauged brane-bulk supergravities in five dimensions. We discuss the form of supersymmetry violating Scherk-Schwarz terms in pure supergravity and in supergravity coupled to matter. Although the Lagrangian mass terms that arise as the result of the Scherk-Schwarz redefinition of fields are naturally of the order of the inverse radius of the orbifold, the effective 4d physical mass terms are rather set by the scale \sqrt{|\bar{\Lambda}|}, where \bar{\Lambda} is the 4d cosmlogical constant.Comment: 9 pages, talk given at the 1st International Conference on String Phenomenology, Oxford, UK, July 6 - 11, 200

Boundary Terms in Brane Worlds

We clarify the relation between orbifold and interval pictures in 5d brane worlds. We establish this correspondence for Z_2-even and Z_2-odd orbifold fields. In the interval picture Gibbons-Hawking terms are necessary to fulfill consistency conditions. We show how the brane world consistency conditions arise in the interval picture. We apply the procedure to the situation where the transverse dimension is terminated by naked singularities. In particular, we find the boundary terms needed when the naive vacuum action is infinite.Comment: 15 pages, plain Latex, typos correcte

Thermally Favourable Gauge Mediation

We discuss the thermal evolution of the spurion and messenger fields of ordinary gauge mediation models taking into account the Standard Model degrees of freedom. It is shown that for thermalized messengers the metastable susy breaking vacuum becomes thermally selected provided that the susy breaking sector is sufficiently weakly coupled to messengers or to any other observable field.Comment: 11 pages, 6 figures, plain latex; numerical factors corrected, final versio