Publications (39)
AdS_5 Supersymmetry in N=1 Superspace
Jonathan Bagger, Chi Xiong
We use N=1 superspace to construct the supersymmetric matter couplings of vector and hyper multiplets in a five-dimensional anti-de Sitter spacetime background. For hypermultiplets…
New Goldstone multiplet for partially broken supersymmetry
Jonathan Bagger, Alexander Galperin
The partial spontaneous breaking of rigid N=2 supersymmetry implies the existence of a massless N=1 Goldstone multiplet. In this paper we show that the spin-(1/2,1) Maxwell multipl…
Supersymmetry breaking by Wilson lines in AdS
Jonathan Bagger, Michele Redi
In the Randall-Sundrum compactification of AdS with detuned brane tensions, supersymmetry can be spontaneously broken by a non-trivial Wilson line for the graviphoton. The supe…
Supersymmetric Radion in the Randall-Sundrum Scenario
Jonathan Bagger, Dennis Nemeschansky, Ren-Jie Zhang
We derive the effective action for the radion supermultiplet in the supersymmetric Randall-Sundrum model with two opposite tension branes.
Supersymmetric Nonlinear Sigma Model in AdS_5
Jonathan Bagger, Jingsheng Li
We construct the supersymmetric nonlinear sigma model in a fixed AdS_5 background. We use component fields and find that the complex bosons must be the coordinates of a hyper-Kahle…
Linear and Nonlinear Supersymmetries
Jonathan Bagger, Alexander Galperin
In this talk we use nonlinear realizations to study the spontaneous partial breaking of rigid and local supersymmetry.
Supersymmetric Randall-Sundrum Scenario
Richard Altendorfer, Jonathan Bagger, Dennis Nemeschansky
We present the supersymmetric version of the minimal Randall-Sundrum model with two opposite tension branes.
Spacetime Supersymmetry in a nontrivial NS-NS Superstring Background
Jonathan Bagger, Ioannis Giannakis
In this paper we consider superstring propagation in a nontrivial NS-NS background. We deform the world sheet stress tensor and supercurrent with an infinitesimal B_{μν} field. W…
Design Initiative for a 10 TeV pCM Wakefield Collider
Spencer Gessner, Jens Osterhoff, Carl A. Lindstrøm +198
This document outlines a community-driven Design Study for a 10 TeV pCM Wakefield Accelerator Collider. The 2020 ESPP Report emphasized the need for Advanced Accelerator R\&D, and…
Three-Algebras in N = 5, 6 Superconformal Chern-Simons Theories: Representations and Relations
Jonathan Bagger, George Bruhn
In this work we present 3-algebraic constructions and representations for three-dimensional N = 5 supersymmetric Chern-Simons theories, and show how they relate to theories with ad…
Anomaly mediation in supergravity theories
Jonathan Bagger, Takeo Moroi, Erich Poppitz
We consider the effects of anomalies on the supersymmetry-breaking parameters in supergravity theories. We construct a supersymmetric expression for the anomaly-induced terms in th…
Twisting Warped Supergravity
Jonathan Bagger, Dmitry Belyaev
We study gauged five-dimensional supergravity on the interval [0,ÏR]. We find a set of boundary conditions with respect to which the theory is locally supersymmetric. For theories…
Gauge Symmetry and Supersymmetry of Multiple M2-Branes
Jonathan Bagger, Neil Lambert
In previous work we proposed a field theory model for multiple M2-branes based on an algebra with a totally antisymmetric triple product. In this paper we gauge a symmetry that ari…
Precise Predictions for the Masses and Couplings in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model
Jonathan Bagger, Konstantin Matchev, Damien Pierce
We present selected results of our program to determine the masses, gauge couplings, and Yukawa couplings of the minimal supersymmetric model in a full one-loop calculation. We foc…
Boundary Conditions in Brane-World Supergravity
Jonathan Bagger, Dmitry V. Belyaev
Bulk supergravity on a manifold with boundary must be supplemented by boundary conditions that preserve local supersymmetry. This "downstairs" picture has certain advantages over t…
The R Axion From Dynamical Supersymmetry Breaking
Jonathan Bagger, Erich Poppitz, Lisa Randall
All generic, calculable models of dynamical supersymmetry breaking have a spontaneously broken symmetry and therefore contain an axion. We show that the axion is massive in…
Destabilizing Divergences in Supergravity-Coupled Supersymmetric Theories
Jonathan Bagger, Erich Poppitz
Nonrenormalizable couplings in supergravity-coupled supersymmetric theories can give rise to power-law divergences that destabilize the weak-scale hierarchy. For the case of the st…
Brane-induced supersymmetry breaking
Jonathan Bagger, Ferruccio Feruglio, Fabio Zwirner
We study spontaneous supersymmetry breaking induced by brane-localized dynamics in five-dimensional supergravity compactified on S^1/Z_2. We consider a model with gravity in the bu…
Naturally Heavy Scalars in Supersymmetric Grand Unified Theories
Jonathan Bagger, Jonathan L. Feng, Nir Polonsky
The supersymmetric flavor, CP and Polonyi problems are hints that the fundamental scale of the soft supersymmetry breaking parameters may be above a TeV, in apparent conflict with…
SuperHiggs Mechanism in String Theory
Jonathan Bagger, Ioannis Giannakis
We exhibit the superHiggs effect in heterotic string theory by turning on a background NS-NS field and deforming the BRST operator consistent with superconformal invariance. The NS…
Dual Anti-de Sitter Superalgebras from Partial Supersymmetry Breaking
Richard Altendorfer, Jonathan Bagger
The partial breaking of supersymmetry in anti-de Sitter (AdS) space can be accomplished using two of four dual representations for the massive OSp(1,4) spin-3/2 multiplet. The repr…
Comments on Multiple M2-branes
Jonathan Bagger, Neil Lambert
Recently a three-dimensional field theory was derived that is consistent with all the symmetries expected of the worldvolume action for multiple M2-branes. In this note we examine…
Radion effective theory in the detuned Randall-Sundrum model
Jonathan Bagger, Michele Redi
We compute the two-derivative low-energy effective action for the radion in the (supersymmetric) Randall-Sundrum scenario with detuned brane tensions. At the classical level, a pot…
Generalized symmetry breaking on orbifolds
Jonathan Bagger, Ferruccio Feruglio, Fabio Zwirner
We reconsider the phenomenon of mass generation via coordinate-dependent compatifications of higher-dimensional theories on orbifolds. For definiteness, we study a generic five-dim…
Destabilizing Divergences in Supergravity Theories at Two Loops
Jonathan Bagger, Erich Poppitz, Lisa Randall
We examine the stability of the mass hierarchy in hidden-sector supergravity theories. We show that a quadratically divergent tadpole can appear at two loops, even in minimal super…
Precision Corrections to Supersymmetric Unification
Jonathan Bagger, Konstantin Matchev, Damien Pierce
We compute the full set of weak-scale gauge and Yukawa threshold corrections in the minimal supersymmetric standard model, including all finite (non-logarithmic) corrections, which…
Quantum Inconsistency of Einstein Supergravity
Jonathan Bagger, Takeo Moroi, Erich Poppitz
We show that N=1, D=4 Einstein-frame supergravity is inconsistent at one loop because of an anomaly in local supersymmetry transformations. A Jacobian must be added to the Einstein…
Dynamical Supersymmetry Breaking in Supergravity Theories
Jonathan Bagger
In rigid supersymmetry, generic models of dynamical supersymmetry breaking contain a light Goldstone boson, called the R axion. We show that supergravity effects explicitly break t…
Multiple Membranes in M-theory
Jonathan Bagger, Neil Lambert, Sunil Mukhi +1
We review developments in the theory of multiple, parallel membranes in M-theory. After discussing the inherent difficulties pertaining to a maximally supersymmetric lagrangian for…
The tensor Goldstone multiplet for partially broken supersymmetry
Jonathan Bagger, Alexander Galperin
We show that the tensor gauge multiplet of N=1 supersymmetry can serve as the Goldstone multiplet for partially broken rigid N=2 supersymmetry. We exploit a remarkable analogy with…
The International Linear Collider: Report to Snowmass 2021
Alexander Aryshev, Ties Behnke, Mikael Berggren +508
The International Linear Collider (ILC) is on the table now as a new global energy-frontier accelerator laboratory taking data in the 2030s. The ILC addresses key questions for our…
Modeling Multiple M2's
Jonathan Bagger, Neil Lambert
We investigate the worldvolume theory that describes N coincident M2-branes ending on an M5 brane. We argue that the fields that describe the transverse spacetime coordinates take…
Supersymmetric branes with (almost) arbitrary tensions
Jonathan Bagger, Dmitry Belyaev
We present a supersymmetric version of the two-brane Randall-Sundrum scenario, with arbitrary brane tensions T_1 and T_2, subject to the bound |T_{1,2}| \leq \sqrt{-6Î_5}, where Î…
The International Linear Collider. A Global Project
Hiroaki Aihara, Jonathan Bagger, Philip Bambade +59
A large, world-wide community of physicists is working to realise an exceptional physics program of energy-frontier, electron-positron collisions with the International Linear Coll…
Gaugino Condensation in N=1 Supergravity Models with Multiple Dilaton-Like Fields
Jonathan Bagger, Yi-Yen Wu
We study supersymmetry breaking by hidden-sector gaugino condensation in N=1 D=4 supergravity models with multiple dilaton-like moduli fields. Our work is motivated by Type I strin…
N=2 Nonlinear Sigma Models in N=1 Superspace: Four and Five Dimensions
Jonathan Bagger, Chi Xiong
We formulate four-dimensional N=2 supersymmetric nonlinear sigma models in N=1 superspace. We show how to add superpotentials consistent with N=2 supersymmetry. We lift our constru…
Summary of the Supersymmetry Working Group
Jonathan Bagger, Uriel Nauenberg, Xerxes Tata +1
We summarize the results obtained by the Supersymmetry Working Group at the 1996 Snowmass Workshop.
Higgs Mechanism in String Theory
Jonathan Bagger, Ioannis Giannakis
In first-quantized string theory, spacetime symmetries are described by inner automorphisms of the underlying conformal field theory. In this paper we use this approach to illustra…
Three-Algebras and N=6 Chern-Simons Gauge Theories
Jonathan Bagger, Neil Lambert
We derive the general form for a three-dimensional scale-invariant field theory with N=6 supersymmetry, SU(4) R-symmetry and a U(1) global symmetry. The results can be written in t…