Charge and Colour Breaking Constraints in the MSSM With Non-Universal SUSY Breaking

Abstract

We examine charge/colour breaking along directions in supersymmetric field space which are F and D-flat. We catalogue the dangerous directions and include some new ones which have not previously been considered. Analytic expressions for the resulting constraints are provided which are valid for all patterns of supersymmetry breaking. As an example we consider a recently proposed pattern of supersymmetry breaking derived in Horava-Witten M-theory, and show that there is no choice of parameters for which the physical vacuum is a global minimum.

12 Pages plain latex; includes 1 postscript figure. Final version to appear in PLB

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