Self-Dual Tensors and Partial Supersymmetry Breaking in Five Dimensions

Abstract

We study spontaneous supersymmetry breaking of five-dimensional supergravity theories from sixteen to eight supercharges in Minkowski vacua. This N=4 to N=2 breaking is induced by Abelian gaugings that require the introduction of self-dual tensor fields accompanying the vectors in the gravity multiplet and vector multiplets. These tensor fields have first-order kinetic terms and can become massive by a Stueckelberg-like mechanism. We identify the general class of N=2 vacua and show how the N=4 spectrum splits into massless and massive N=2 multiplets. In particular, we find a massive gravitino multiplet, containing two complex massive tensors, and a number of massive tensor multiplets and hypermultiplets. We determine the resulting N=2 effective action for the massless multiplets obtained by integrating out massive fields. We show that the metric and Chern-Simons terms of the vectors are corrected at one-loop by massive tensors as well as spin-1/2 and spin-3/2 fermions. These contributions are independent of the supersymmetry-breaking scale and thus have to be included at arbitrarily low energies.

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