Linking the Supersymmetric Standard Model to the Cosmological Constant

preprint2020arXivOpen access

Abstract

String theory has no parameter except the string scale MSM_S, so the Planck scale MPlM_\text{Pl}, the supersymmetry-breaking scale, the EW scale mEWm_\text{EW} as well as the vacuum energy density (cosmological constant) ΛΛ are to be determined dynamically at any local minimum solution in the string theory landscape. Here we consider a model that links the supersymmetric electroweak phenomenology (bottom up) to the string theory motivated flux compactification approach (top down). In this model, supersymmetry is broken by a combination of the racetrack Kähler uplift mechanism, which naturally allows an exponentially small positive ΛΛ in a local minimum, and the anti-D3-brane in the KKLT scenario. In the absence of the Higgs doublets in the supersymmetric standard model, one has either a small ΛΛ or a big enough SUSY-breaking scale, but not both. The introduction of the Higgs fields (with their soft terms) allows a small ΛΛ and a big enough SUSY-breaking scale simultaneously. Since an exponentially small ΛΛ is statistically preferred (as the properly normalized probability distribution P(Λ)P(Λ) diverges at Λ=0+Λ=0^{+}), identifying the observed ΛobsΛ_{\rm obs} to the median value Λ50%Λ_{50\%} yields mEW∼100m_{\rm EW} \sim 100 GeV. We also find that the warped anti-D3-brane tension has a SUSY-breaking scale of 100mEW100m_{\rm EW} in the landscape while the SUSY-breaking scale that directly correlates with the Higgs fields in the visible sector has a value of mEWm_{\rm EW}.

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