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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
Supersymmetry Breakdown at a Hidden Wall
We consider hidden sector supersymmetry breakdown in the strongly coupled
heterotic theory of Ho\v{r}ava and Witten. Using effective
field theory methods in four dimensions, we can show that gravitational
interactions induce soft breaking terms in the observable sector that are of
order of the gravitiono mass. We apply these methods to the mechanism of
gaugino condensation at the hidden wall. Although the situation is very similar
to the weakly coupled case, there is a decisive difference concerning the
observable sector gaugino mass; with desirable phenomenological as well as
cosmological consequences.Comment: 29 pages, latex, no figures, To appear in Nuclear Physics B. Minor
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Stringy Origin of Discrete R-symmetries
Discrete symmetries play a crucial role in particle physics. They appear
abundantly in string model constructions. We focus here on the case of discrete
-symmetries which are intrinsically connected to the Lorentz group in extra
dimensions and the appearance of -extended supersymmetry. In that sense,
discrete -symmetries can be understood as "fractionally" extended
supersymmetry. These symmetries reveal insight about the location of fields in
extra dimensions (in particular the Higgs boson). Applications can be found in
the solution of the -problem, suppression of proton decay and the
structure of the soft terms of broken supersymmetry.Comment: Proceedings of the Corfu Summer Institute 2016 "School and Workshops
on Elementary Particle Physics and Gravity",31 August - 23 September, 2016,
Corfu, Greec
Five golden rules for superstring phenomenology
Recent measurements of the values of gauge coupling constants as well as
neutrino properties support the idea of a grand unified (GUT) description of
particle physics at a large scale of GeV. We discuss a
strategy to incorporate this picture in the framework of superstring theory. In
such a scheme successful predictions of GUTs can be realized while some of the
more problematic aspects of grand unification might be avoided. The most
promising models are expected in the framework of the heterotic
string theory.Comment: Based on talks given at the conference on ``String Phenomenology
2004, Ann Arbor, and ``Pascos04-NathFest Symposium'', Boston, August 200
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