Patterns of Soft Masses from General Semi-Direct Gauge Mediation
Journal article, 2010

We give a general formulation of semi-direct gauge mediation of supersymmetry breaking where the messengers interact with the hidden sector only through a weakly gauged group. Using this general formulation, we provide an explicit proof that the MSSM gaugino masses are vanishing to leading order in the gauge couplings. On the other hand, the MSSM sfermion masses have, generically, a non-vanishing leading contribution. We discuss how such a mechanism can successfully be combined with other mediation schemes which give tachyonic sfermions, such as sequestered anomaly mediation and some direct gauge mediation models.

Supersymmetry Breaking - Supersymmetric gauge theory - Supersymmetric Standard Model

Author

Christoffer Petersson

International Solvay Institute for Physics and Chemistry

Matteo Bertolini

Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati

Gabriele Ferretti

Chalmers, Applied Physics, Mathematical Physics

A. Mariotti

International Solvay Institute for Physics and Chemistry

Journal of High Energy Physics

1126-6708 (ISSN) 1029-8479 (eISSN)

Vol. 2010 3 8

Subject Categories

Subatomic Physics

DOI

10.1007/JHEP03(2010)008

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