| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 182, 2018
6th International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP 2017)
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| Article Number | 02005 | |
| Number of page(s) | 26 | |
| Section | Talks | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201818202005 | |
| Published online | 03 August 2018 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201818202005
Scale hierarchies in particle physics and cosmology
1
LPTHE, UMR CNRS 7589 Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Paris 6, 75005 Paris, France
2
Albert Einstein Center, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Bern University, Sidlerstrasse 5, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
a e-mail: ignatios.antoniadis@upmc.fr
Published online: 3 August 2018
I describe the phenomenology of a model of supersymmetry breaking in the presence of a tiny (tuneable) positive cosmological constant. It utilises a single chiral multiplet with a gauged shift symmetry, that can be identified with the string dilaton (or an appropriate compactification modulus). The model is coupled to the MSSM, leading to calculable soft supersymmetry breaking masses and a distinct low energy phenomenology that allows to differentiate it from other models of supersymmetry breaking and mediation mechanisms. We also study the question if this model can lead to inflation by identifying the dilaton with the inflaton. We find that this is possible if the Kähler potential is modified by a term that has the form of NS5-brane instantons, leading to an appropriate inflationary plateau around the maximum of the scalar potential, depending on two extra parameters.
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