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Meta-stable supersymmetry breaking in a cooling universe

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

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SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/03/107

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cosmology of theories beyond the SM; supersymmetry breaking

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We look at the recently proposed idea that susy breaking can be accomplished in a meta-stable vacuum. In the context of one of the simplest models ( the Seiberg-dual of super-QCD), we address the following question: if we look at this theory as it cools from high temperature, is it at all possible that we can end up in a susy-breaking meta-stable vacuum? To get an idea about the answer, we look at the free energy of the system at high temperature. We conclude that the phase-structure of the free-energy as the temperature drops, is indeed such that there is a second order phase transition in the direction of the non-susy vacuum at a finite T = T-c(Q). On the other hand, the potential barrier in the direction of the susy vacuum is there all the way till T similar to 0.

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