February 09, 1996 - February 09, 2029

  • Date:05TuesdayApril 2011

    Pseudo-Goldstini in Field Theory

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    11:45 - 13:00
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    Neve Shalom
    LecturerProf. Riccardo Argurio
    University of Brussels
    Organizer
    Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics
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    AbstractShow full text abstract about After a brief review of gauge mediation of supersymmetry bre...»
    After a brief review of gauge mediation of supersymmetry breaking, we consider a class of models where there are several hidden sectors, completely decoupled if the visible sector couplings are set to zero. One expects a Goldstino to arise in each SUSY breaking sector, however only one will eventually become the longitudinal polarization of the gravitino. We set out to compute the radiatively induced mass of the other combinations, a.k.a. the Pseudo-Goldstini. We first show that the effective theory is not very useful to this purpose. Instead, we can use a formalism very similar to the one of General Gauge Mediation to write an exact and completely general expression for this mass. In a specific, calculable model, it arises at three loops. The result yields a phenomenologically interesting NLSP pseudo-Goldstino at 1-100 GeV.

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