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Notes on SUSY and R-Symmetry Breaking in Wess-Zumino Models
Zohar Komargodski, David Shih
We study aspects of Wess-Zumino models related to SUSY and R-symmetry breaking at tree-level. We present a recipe for constructing a wide class of tree-level SUSY and R-breaking mo…
Surveying Pseudomoduli: the Good, the Bad and the Incalculable
Kenneth Intriligator, David Shih, Matthew Sudano
We classify possible types of pseudomoduli which arise when supersymmetry is dynamically broken in infrared-free low-energy theories. We show that, even if the pseudomoduli potenti…
Supersymmetry Breaking, R-Symmetry Breaking and Metastable Vacua
Kenneth Intriligator, Nathan Seiberg, David Shih
Models of spontaneous supersymmetry breaking generically have an R-symmetry, which is problematic for obtaining gaugino masses and avoiding light R-axions. The situation is improve…
A Note on (Meta)stable Brane Configurations in MQCD
I. Bena, E. Gorbatov, S. Hellerman +2
We examine the M-theory version of SQCD which is known as MQCD. In the IIA limit, this theory appears to have a supersymmetry-breaking brane configuration which corresponds to the…
Dynamical SUSY Breaking in Meta-Stable Vacua
Kenneth Intriligator, Nathan Seiberg, David Shih
Dynamical supersymmetry breaking in a long-lived meta-stable vacuum is a phenomenologically viable possibility. This relatively unexplored avenue leads to many new models of dynami…
Exact Black Hole Degeneracies and the Topological String
David Shih, Xi Yin
Motivated by the recent conjecture of Ooguri, Strominger and Vafa, we compute the semi-canonical partition function of BPS black holes in N=4 and N=8 string theories, to all orders…