Spontaneous breaking of N = 2 global supersymmetry

I. Antoniadis; H. Partouche; T. R. Taylor

doi:10.1016/0370-2693(96)00028-7

Spontaneous breaking of N = 2 global supersymmetry

I. Antoniadis
, H. Partouche
, T. R. Taylor

Center for Atomic-scale Materials Physics (CAMP)
Northeastern University

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We study spontaneous supersymmetry breaking in N = 2 globally supersymmetric theories describing a system of abelian vector multiplets. We find that the most general form of the action admits, in addition to the usual Fayet-Iliopoulos term, a magnetic Fayet-Iliopoulos term for the auxiliary components of dual vector multiplets. In a generic case, N = 2 supersymmetry is broken down spontaneously to N = 1. In some cases however, the scalar potential can drive the theory towards a N = 2 supersymmetric ground state where massless dyons condense in the vacuum.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	83-87
Number of pages	5
Journal	Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume	372
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0370-2693(96)00028-7
Publication status	Published - 4 Apr 1996

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