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JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2014)048
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Supersymmetry Breaking; Models of Quantum Gravity
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- Government of Canada through Industry Canada
- Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Research and Information (MRI)
- Spanish Government [FPA2011-24568]
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We propose a novel mechanism of SUSY breaking by coupling a Lorentz-invariant supersymmetric matter sector to non-supersymmetric gravitational interactions with Lifshitz scaling. The improved UV properties of Lifshitz propagators moderate the otherwise uncontrollable ultraviolet divergences induced by gravitational loops. This ensures that both the amount of induced Lorentz violation and SUSY breaking in the matter sector are controlled by Lambda(2)(HL)/M-P(2), the ratio of the Ho. rava-Lifshitz cross-over scale Lambda(HL) to the Planck scale M-P. This ratio can be kept very small, providing a novel way of explicitly breaking supersymmetry without reintroducing fine-tuning. We illustrate our idea by considering a model of scalar gravity with Horava-Lifshitz scaling coupled to a supersymmetric Wess-Zumino matter sector, in which we compute the two-loop SUSY breaking corrections to the masses of the light scalars due to the gravitational interactions and the heavy fields.
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