4.4 Article

Winding uplifts and the challenges of weak and strong SUSY breaking in AdS

Journal

JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 3, Pages -

Publisher

SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2021)284

Keywords

Flux compactifications; Superstring Vacua; Supergravity Models; Supersymmetry Breaking

Funding

  1. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy [EXC 2181/1 - 390900948]
  2. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Graduiertenkolleg 'Particle physics beyond the Standard Model' [GRK 1940]

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The paper discusses the problem of metastable SUSY breaking in the landscape and the challenge of SUSY breaking in the AdS context. It proposes breaking SUSY using multi-cosine-shaped axion potentials and considers the potential for violating the non-SUSY AdS conjecture in the KKLT context and the type-IIA setting of DGKT.
We discuss the problem of metastable SUSY breaking in the landscape. While this is clearly crucial for the various de Sitter proposals, it is also interesting to consider the SUSY breaking challenge in the AdS context. For example, it could be that a stronger form of the non-SUSY AdS conjecture holds: it would forbid even metastable non-SUSY AdS in cases where the SUSY-breaking scale is parametrically above/below the AdS scale. At the technical level, the present paper proposes to break SUSY using the multi-cosine-shaped axion potentials which arise if a long winding trajectory of a 'complex-structure axion' appears in the large-complex-structure limit of a Calabi-Yau orientifold. This has been studied in the context of 'Winding Inflation', but the potential for SUSY breaking has not been fully explored. We discuss the application to uplifting LVS vacua, point out the challenges which one faces in the KKLT context, and consider the possibility of violating the non-SUSY AdS conjecture in the type-IIA setting of DGKT.

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