237 research outputs found
Natural Supergravity Inflation
We show that a single uncharged chiral superfield, canonically coupled to
\mbox{} supergravity with vanishing superpotential, naturally drives
inflation in the early universe for a class of simple Kahler potentials.
Inflation occurs due to the one-loop generation of a Kahler anomaly
proportional to . The coefficient of this term is of the correct
magnitude to describe all aspects of an inflationary cosmology, including
sufficient amplitude perturbations and reheating. Higher order terms
proportional to for are naturally suppressed relative to the
term and, hence, do not destabilize the theory.Comment: 13 pages, CERN-TH.6685/92, UPR-0526
Two Higgs Pair Heterotic Vacua and Flavor-Changing Neutral Currents
We present a vacuum of heterotic M-theory whose observable sector has the
MSSM spectrum with the addition of one extra pair of Higgs-Higgs conjugate
superfields. The quarks/leptons have a realistic mass hierarchy with a
naturally light first family. The double elliptic structure of the Calabi-Yau
compactification threefold leads to two ``stringy'' selection rules. These
classically disallow Yukawa couplings to the second Higgs pair and, hence,
Higgs mediated flavor-changing neutral currents. Such currents are induced in
higher-dimensional interactions, but are naturally suppressed. We show that our
results fit comfortably below the observed upper bounds on neutral
flavor-changing processes.Comment: 52 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, requires feynm
Five--Branes and Supersymmetry Breaking in M--Theory
Supersymmetry breaking via gaugino condensation is studied in vacua of
heterotic M-theory with five-branes. We show that supersymmetry is still broken
by a global mechanism and that the non-perturbative superpotential takes the
standard form. When expressed in terms of low energy fields, a modification
arises due to a threshold correction in the gauge kinetic function that depends
on five-brane moduli. We also determine the form of the low energy matter field
Kahler potential. These results are used to discuss the soft supersymmetry
breaking parameters, in particular the question of universality.Comment: 28 pages, Late
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