Fayet-Iliopoulos terms in supergravity without gauged R-symmetry

Abstract We construct a supergravity-Maxwell theory with a novel embedding of the Fayet-Iliopoulos D-term, leading to spontaneous supersymmetry breaking. The gauging of the R-symmetry is not required and a gravitino mass is allowed for a generic vacuum. When matter couplings are introduced, an uplif...

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Main Authors: Niccolò Cribiori, Fotis Farakos, Magnus Tournoy, Antoine Van Proeyen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2018-04-01
Series:Journal of High Energy Physics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP04(2018)032
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Summary:Abstract We construct a supergravity-Maxwell theory with a novel embedding of the Fayet-Iliopoulos D-term, leading to spontaneous supersymmetry breaking. The gauging of the R-symmetry is not required and a gravitino mass is allowed for a generic vacuum. When matter couplings are introduced, an uplift through a positive definite contribution to the scalar potential is obtained. We observe a notable similarity to the D¯3 $$ \overline{D}3 $$ uplift constructions and we give a natural description in terms of constrained multiplets.
ISSN:1029-8479