• DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.63.056003
• Corpus ID: 1383686

Exponentially small supersymmetry breaking from extra dimensions

@article{ArkaniHamed1999ExponentiallySS,
  title={Exponentially small supersymmetry breaking from extra dimensions},
  author={Nima Arkani-Hamed and Lawrence J. Hall and David R. Smith and Neal Weiner},
  journal={Physical Review D},
  year={1999},
  volume={63},
  pages={056003}
}

• N. Arkani-Hamed, L. Hall, +1 author N. Weiner
• Published 22 November 1999
• Physics
• Physical Review D

The supersymmetric ``shining'' of free massive chiral superfields in extra dimensions from a distant source brane can trigger exponentially small supersymmetry breaking on our brane of order ${e}^{\ensuremath{-}2\ensuremath{\pi}R},$ where R is the radius of the extra dimensions. This supersymmetry breaking can be transmitted to the superpartners in a number of ways, for instance by gravity or via the standard model gauge interactions. The radius R can easily be stabilized at a size $O(10)$ larger that the fundamental scale. The models are extremely simple, relying only on free, classical bulk dynamics to solve the hierarchy problem.