Splitting extended supersymmetry

Ignatios Antoniadis, Antonio Delgado, Karim Benakli, Mariano Quirós, Marc Tuckmantel

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Abstract

We show how splitting supersymmetry reconciles a class of intersecting brane models with unification. The gauge sector in these models arises in multiplets of extended supersymmetry while matter states are in N=1 representations. A deformation of the angles between the branes gives large masses to squarks and sleptons, as well as supersymmetry breaking contributions to other string states. The latter generate at one-loop heavy Dirac masses for winos and gluinos and can induce a mass term for the higgsino doublets. We find that this scenario is compatible with gauge coupling unification at high scale for both cases where the gauge sector is N=2 and N=4 supersymmetric. Moreover a neutralino, combination of neutral higgsinos and binos, is a natural candidate for dark matter. © 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)302-306
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume634
Issue number2-3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 9 Mar 2006

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