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Sequestered de Sitter string scenarios: soft-terms

Journal

JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 11, Pages -

Publisher

SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2014)071

Keywords

Strings and branes phenomenology

Funding

  1. DFG [TR33]
  2. Ramanujan fellowship
  3. Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/L000385/1, ST/J000434/1] Funding Source: researchfish
  4. STFC [ST/L000385/1, ST/J000434/1] Funding Source: UKRI

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We analyse soft supersymmetry breaking in type IIB de Sitter string vacua after moduli stabilisation, focussing on models in which the Standard Model is sequestered from the supersymmetry breaking sources and the spectrum of soft-terms is hierarchically smaller than the gravitino mass m(3/2). Due to this feature, these models are compatible with gauge coupling unification and TeV scale supersymmetry with no cosmological moduli problem. We determine the influence on soft-terms of concrete realisations of de Sitter vacua constructed from supersymmetric effective actions. One of these scenarios provides the first study of soft-terms for consistent string models embedded in a compact Calabi-Yau manifold with all moduli stabilised. Depending on the moduli dependence of the Kahler metric for matter fields and on the mechanism responsible to obtain a de Sitter vacuum, we find two scenarios for phenomenology: (i) a split-supersymmetry scenario where gaugino masses are suppressed with respect to scalar masses: M-1/2 similar to m(3/2)is an element of << m(0) similar to m(3/2)root is an element of << m(3/2) for is an element of similar to m(3/2)/M-P << 1; (ii) a typical MSSM scenario where all soft-terms are of the same order: M-1/2 similar to m(0) similar to m(3/2)is an element of << m(3/2). Background fluxes determine the numerical coefficients of the soft-terms allowing for small variations of parameters as is necessary to confront data and to interpolate between different scenarios. We comment on different stringy origins of the mu-term and potential sources of desequestering.

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