Abstract
We study a supersymmetry breaking mechanism in the context of a minimal anomalous extension of the MSSM. The anomaly cancellation mechanism is achieved through suitable counterterms in the effective action, that is, the Green-Schwarz terms. We assume that the standard MSSM superpotential is perturbatively realized; that is, all terms allowed by gauge symmetries except for the ΞΌ-term which has a nonperturbative origin. The presence of this term is expected in many intersecting D-brane models which can be considered as the ultraviolet completion of our model. We show how soft supersymmetry breaking terms arise in this framework, and we study the effect of some phenomenological constraints on this scenario.
1. Introduction
The LHC era has begun and the high-energy physics community is analyzing and discussing the first results. One of the key goals of LHC, beside shedding light on the electroweak (EW) symmetry breaking sector of the standard model (SM), is to find some signature of physics beyond the SM. Supersymmetric particles and extra neutral gauge bosons are widely studied examples of such signatures. A large class of phenomenological and string models aiming to describe the low-energy physics accessible to LHC predict the existence of additional abelian gauge groups as well as supersymmetry softly broken roughly at the TeV scale. In particular in string theory the presence of extra anomalous βs seems ubiquitous. D-brane models in orientifold vacua contain several abelian factors, and they are typically anomalous [1β57]. In [58] we studied a string-inspired extension of the (minimal supersymmetric SM) MSSM with an additional anomalous (see [59β67] for other anomalous extensions of the SM and see [68β71] for extensions of the MSSM). The term anomalous refers to the peculiar mechanism of gauge anomaly cancellation [72β74] which does not rely on the fermion charges but rather on the presence of suitable counterterms in the effective action. These terms are usually dubbed as Green-Schwarz (GS) [59β67, 75β77] and generalized Chern-Simons (GCS) [78β85]. They can be considered as the low-energy remnants of the higher-dimensional anomaly cancellation mechanism in string theory. In our model we assumed the usual MSSM superpotential and soft supersymmetry breaking terms allowed by the symmetries (the well-known result [86]). In this paper we address the question of the origin of the latter in the context of a global supersymmetry breaking mechanism. This means that we do not rely on a supergravity origin of the soft terms but rather on a local setup based, for example, on intersecting D-brane constructions in superstring theory in which gravity is essentially decoupled (see, for instance, [87] for, a recent attempt in this direction). Moreover in [58] we made the assumption that all the MSSM superpotential terms were perturbatively realized, that is, allowed by the extra abelian symmetries. In the following we assume instead that the -term is perturbatively forbidden. The origin of this term is rather non-perturbative and can be associated to an exotic instanton contribution which naturally arises from euclidean D-brane in the framework of a type IIA intersecting brane model (see [88] and references therein).
The paper is organized as follows: in Section 2 we describe the basic setup of the model and we discuss the perturbative and non-perturbative origin of the superpotential terms. We argue how the latter can naturally come from an intersecting D-brane model considered as the ultraviolet (UV) completion of our model. In Section 3 we describe the (global) supersymmetry breaking mechanism that gives mass to all the soft terms. In Section 5 we compute the gauge vector boson masses while in Section 4 we study the scalar potential of the theory in the neutral sector. In Section 6 we describe the neutralino sector while in Section 7 we describe the sfermion mass matrices. In Section 8 we study the phenomenology of our model and the bounds that can be put by some experimental constraints. Finally in Section 9 we draw our conclusions.
2. Model Setup
The model is an extension of the MSSM with two extra abelian gauge groups, and . The first one is anomalous while the second one is anomaly-free. This assumption is quite generic since in models with several anomalous symmetries there exists a unique linear combination which is anomalous while the other combinations are anomaly-free. The charge assignment for the chiral superfields is shown in Table 1. The vector and matter chiral multiplets undergo the usual gauge transformations The anomaly cancellation of the gauge group is achieved by the four-dimensional analogue of the higher-dimensional GS mechanism which involves the StΓΌckelberg superfield transforming as a shift where is a mass parameter related to the anomalous gauge boson mass. It turns out that not all the anomalies can be cancelled in this way. In particular the so-called mixed anomalies between anomalous and non-anomalous βs require the presence of trilinear GCS counterterms. For further details about the anomaly cancellation mechanism, see Appendix A (see also, for instance, [58] and [80β82]). The effective superpotential of our model at the scale is given by where is given by which is the usual MSSM superpotential without the -term which is forbidden for a generic choice of the charges and . The second term in (2.3) is the only gauge invariant coupling allowed between the StΓΌckelberg superfield and the two Higgs fields. This is the only allowed coupling with matter fields for a field transforming as (2.2). We will argue later about how nonperturbative effects can generate such a term. The last term in (2.3) is a mass term for which are charged under both and . These fields have been considered as supersymmetry breaking mediators in the context of anomalous models by Dvali and Pomarol [89]. They play a key role in generating gaugino masses. In the effective lagrangian, beside the usual kinetic terms (they are charged under both and ), the two fields couple to the gauge field strength through the dimension six effective operator where , is the cut-off scale of the theory while are constants that have to be computed in the UV completion of the theory.
The non perturbative term in (2.3) is expected to be generated in the effective action of intersecting D-brane models which can be considered as the UV completion of our model. This is the leading order term when the coupling is not allowed by gauge invariance. In string theory there are many axions related to the GS mechanism of anomaly cancellation which are charged under some Ramond-Ramond (RR) form. For example, in type IIA orientifold model with D6-branes, axion fields are associated to the RR-form (see for a recent review [90]). Instantons charged under this RR-form, such as Euclidean E2-branes wrapping some 3-cycle in the Calabi-Yau (CY) compactification manifold, give a contribution to the holomorphic couplings in the superpotential. Our analysis does not rely on any concrete intersecting brane model but rather on the generic appearance of such instanton induced terms. The exponential suppression factor of the classical instanton action is where is the volume of the 3-cycle in the CY wrapped by a -brane measured in string units while is the string coupling. Such exponential factor is independent of the gauge coupling, and thus this instanton is usually termed as stringy or exotic instanton (see [88, 91] and references therein). Moreover the instanton contribution can be sizable even in the case if measured in string units.
In type IIA orientifold models with intersecting branes, the complexified moduli, whose imaginary part are the generalized axion fields (depending on the cycle ), can be written as where is the dilaton, is the CY volume 3-form (which is a complex form), and is the RR-form. The integral of this form is dual to the axion whose shift symmetry is gauged in the GS mechanism. The generic contribution of an instanton is formally given by where are chiral superfields localized at the intersection of two D6-branes described by open strings while denotes the instanton classical action: This result can be immediately extended to the supersymmetric case which involves the complete StΓΌckelberg multiplet. The appearance of the exponential suppression factor is dictated by the fact that the superpotential is a holomorphic quantity. Thus the only allowed functional dependence on the string coupling and the axionic field is an exponential. Any other dependence can be excluded due to the shift transformation (2.2).
3. Supersymmetry Breaking
The D-term contribution of the vector multiplet relevant to supersymmetry breaking is given, in the limit of vanishing kinetic mixing , by the following lagrangian: where the sum is extended to all the scalars charged under the . There is no D-term contribution related to the except that of since all the MSSM chiral fields are uncharged under (see Table 1). The last term in (3.1) is a tree-level field-dependent Fayet-Iliopoulos (FI) term which comes from the supersymmetrized StΓΌckelberg lagrangian where in the last line denotes the real part of the lowest component of the StΓΌckelberg chiral multiplet . The fields and are called the saxion and the axion, respectively (with a slight abuse of notation with respect to the previous section where we denoted the dilaton with ). We assume that the real part gets an expectation value. This gives a contribution to the gauge coupling constants which can be absorbed in the following redefinition: where the gauge factors take the values , and the constants are given in (A.2). The tree-level FI term is then given by Moreover in the following we assume that 1-loop FI terms are absent (see the discussion in [92]). The FI term induces a mass term for the scalars. This can be seen by solving the equations of motion for : where the index runs over all chiral superfields. The D-term contribution to the scalar potential is given by The quadratic part gives the scalar mass term where we have defined with The typical scale for the mass is of the order of few hundreds of GeV if βTeV and . It is interesting to note that in this scenario a low sub-TeV supersymmetry breaking scale is due to the StΓΌckelberg mechanism which gives mass to . This is the most important difference with the scenario proposed in [89], where the scale is dynamically generated by some dynamics in a strong coupling regime.
Mass terms for the gauginos, that is, , are generated by the dimension six effective operator (2.5) in the broken phase where get vacuum expectation value (vev). The contribution coming from this mechanism is where and where in the right-hand side we have used the F-term equations of motion for having assumed real without any loss in generality. We assume for each . This is an assumption of universality as a boundary condition at the cut-off scale which does not affect in a crucial way our analysis. In Section 4 we study the scalar potential of our model and we derive the conditions for having a vev for different from zero. Since we are breaking supersymmetry in the global limit in which the Planck mass , the F-term induced contribution to the scalar masses vanishes leaving (3.8) as the leading contribution.
The requirement of gauge invariance of the superpotential implies the following constraints on the charges As we said at the beginning of this section, we assume that the net kinetic mixing between and vanishes (we postpone the discussion about the kinetic mixing between and to the next section). There are two contributions for the kinetic mixing: the 1-loop mixing and coming from the GS coupling (see (A.1)). The following conditions imply a bound on the charges where the sum is extended over all the chiral fermions in the theory. Constraints (3.15), can be solved in terms of and . By using conditions (3.13), we get The positive squared mass condition for the sfermions implies for all the sfermions having assumed without loss of generality . Using the constraints (3.13) and (3.16), we get the allowed parameter space
4. Scalar Potential
The key ingredient in our model is the instanton-induced term in (2.3) which couples the StΓΌckelberg field to the Higgs fields. The component of this superpotential term gives the following contribution to the Lagrangian: where are the F-terms of . Solving the F-terms equations for and , we get the following contributions for the instanton-induced term in the scalar potential: In the following we assume that gets a vev different from zero and that the mass of this field is much higher than so that its dynamics is not described by the low-energy effective action. From the point of view of the UV completion (e.g., a type IIA intersecting brane model), this amounts to saying that the closed string modulus related to is stabilized. Moreover we made the assumption that the same dynamics that stabilizes also fixes . By supersymmetry the saxion field , being part of the Stckelberg multiplet, has a tree-level mass . Thus if we want to consider a frozen dynamics for at the TeV scale we have to assume a mass parameter for the anomalous just slightly above the TeV scale; that is, βTeV. In this way the effective instanton-induced potential at a scale βTeV is thus given by The first two terms are -terms while the third one is a b-term. The complete effective scalar potential is given by where These relations give a solution of the well-known -problem since both terms have a common origin (see the analysis in Section 8.2). The soft squared masses are generated by the FI term: with given by (3.8). The scalar potential depends on the following new parameters: , , , , , , .
In order to have a vacuum preserving the electromagnetism, the charged field vevs must vanish. Thus we are left with the problem of finding a minimum for the neutral scalar potential Since there are no D-flat directions along which the quartic part vanishes, the potential is always bounded from below. To find the minimum we solve where the scalar field runs over . The conditions for having a nontrivial minimum boil down to the same condition of the MSSM Moreover in order to generate a mass term for the gauginos (see (3.10)), the condition must hold since due to the positive sign of the coefficient of the quadratic term in (4.9). This implies the following condition for the coefficient of the quadratic term: The minimum is attained at . Actually since the potential for the axion is periodic, the minimum condition holds for with . All these minima are physically equivalent, and thus we arbitrarily choose . The remaining three conditions imply the following constraints on the parameters: where we have defined in order to keep a compact notation and as usual as .
In the previous discussion we treated the scalar potential in an exact way. In the following we want to introduce some useful approximation in order to compute the mass eigenstates. Let us go back to the minima equations (4.14). Supposing we can neglect all the terms. With this approximation, the minima equations read where we have defined Equations (4.17) and (4.18) have the same functional form as in the MSSM case. Moreover does not depend on any parameter of the visible sector. Within this approximation the dynamics of the fields is decoupled from that of the Higgs sector, and thus the Higgs potential can be studied by fixing at their vevs. We get neglecting further constant terms in . Close to the minima, the relevant term in the last line of (4.21) is the double product of the Higgs part with the term. Hence by using (4.16) we finally get This potential has the same form (except for the contribution of the exponential term in ) of the MSSM potential, and the corresponding minima equations are exactly given in (4.17) and (4.18). Thus all the well-known MSSM results apply here [93].
In particular one of the constraints is [93] which implies (The presence of the extra field does not affect this result since the minima conditions are the same as the MSSM.) . By using (4.20) we get By assuming βTeV, in the TeV range, , the term between brackets is positive and we get the following constraint: for the Higgs charges.
4.1. Higgs Mass Matrices
We discuss the mass eigenvalues starting from the exact form of the scalar potential (4.4), switching to the approximated expression (4.22) when needed. In the neutral sector the singlet scalar does not mix with any other scalar, so it is a mass eigenstate with square mass The same holds for the imaginary part of which becomes the longitudinal mode of the gauge vector . The mass matrix for the real scalar fields is given by The determinant of this matrix is zero. Two eigenvalues are zero which correspond to the Goldstone modes of and . The physical massive state is an axi-Higgs state with mass given by where we used the relation (3.14). The mass matrix for the real scalar fields , , reads as where . The matrix can be diagonalized exactly, but the results are cumbersome and difficult to read. It is much more convenient starting from the approximated potential (4.22) neglecting the mixing between Higgses and . In this case we can apply the MSSM equations and get the following mass eigenvalues:
The charged sector is unchanged with respect to the MSSM, so
As in the standard MSSM case, the mass of the lightest Higgs has a theoretical bound. It is a well-known problem in the MSSM that the upper bound [94, 95] is not compatible with the LEP bound [96]. In our case the bound is increased due to the presence of -term corrections where the first term is the MSSM bound. In principle, for arbitrary high values of , , we get an increasing upper bound. However, as in the standard MSSM case, undergoes to relatively drastic quantum corrections [93]. Hence in Section 8 we consider tree-level masses for all the particles except for for which we use the 1-loop corrected expression (see (8.10)).
5. Vector Mass Matrix
We now discuss the vector mass matrix. All the neutral scalars could in principle take a vev different from zero; hence we assume The neutral vector square mass matrix in the base is where By taking βTeV (see Section 4), can be considered as decoupled from the low-energy gauge sector (namely, βTeV), and we can ignore with very good approximation any mixing term (The kinetic mixing between and deserves some comment, in particular if we relax the βTeV assumption. Actually the presence of this mixing turns out to be irrelevant for the phenomenology of the visible sector. Anyway one has to take into account that for such a mixing arises at the 1-loop level. In such a case it can be assumed that the two 's are in the kinetic diagonalized basis with thanks to some additional heavy chiral multiplet charged under both and . These multiplets generate a counterterm in the effective theory that cancels against making the net kinetic mixing term equal to zero. This mechanism is analogous to the anomaly cancellation one where the GS mechanism can be generated by an anomaly-free theory with some heavy chiral fermion integrated out of the mass spectrum [80β82].) involving . From now on we will apply this approximation.
Since is a hidden gauge boson, it is decoupled from the SM sector. The charged vector sector is unchanged with respect to the MSSM, so
6. Neutralinos
In comparison with the standard MSSM, we now have five new neutral fermionic fields: , , , . However under the assumption βTeV, and are not in the low-energy sector because of the mass term (we stress that the sector presents a different parametersβ choice with respect to [97β99], where we realized a scenario in which the mixing between and was suppressed). Thus we have where In this basis the neutralino mass matrix is written as where is given in (4.5). We recall that gaugino masses arise from the Dvali-Pomarol term (2.5).
factorizes in a MSSM block in the lower right corner, and in a new sector block in the upper left corner. The new sector block is given by the and contributions. This last block has a MSSM-like structure that can be easily understood just considering the superpotential (2.3) and the gaugino masses (3.10) and by recalling that gets a vev different from zero, while .
Finally there are also corrections coming from the anomalous axino couplings: F-term couplings of the type , D-term couplings of the type , and corrections coming from the superpotential term . However such corrections are always subdominant, and thus we neglect them with very good approximation.
We assume the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) in our model comes from the neutralino sector. In Section 8 we show the parameter regions in which this holds true. In order to ensure that the neutralino is the LSP, we keep fixed the gravitino mass β(TeV) in the limit .
7. Sfermion Masses
The sfermion masses receive several contributions. As we have seen in Section 3, the leading contribution comes from the induced soft masses (3.8). But there are further contributions. We have MSSM-like contributions: F-term corrections proportional to the Yukawa couplings and and term correction from the Higgs sector. Moreover there are term corrections from the Higgs and sector. As an aside, the appearance of such terms in the low-energy action, given our assumption βTeV, can be understood in terms of quantum corrections to, KΓ€hler potential [100]. Considering the first two families, we neglect the corresponding Yukawa couplings (the so-called third family approximation). In this approximation the mass eigenvalues are given by The first terms on the right-hand side are the corresponding soft masses (3.8), the second terms are the contributions with , while the last terms are the corrections given by There is an approximated degeneracy between the sfermions with the same charges.
The mass matrix for the third family sfermions is parametrized as where the off-diagonal terms are generated by F-term corrections proportional to the Yukawa couplings. The stop mass matrix elements are The sbottom mass matrix elements are The stau mass matrix elements are The tau sneutrino mass is where , , and are the masses of the corresponding standard fermions (i.e., further F-term contributions proportional to the Yukawa couplings). The structure of the diagonal terms of (7.3) is the same as in (7.1): soft masses, MSSM D-term contribution, and term correction. Furthermore we stress that there is a mass degeneracy between the three sneutrinos since the soft masses (3.8) are flavor blind.
8. Phenomenology
In the following we derive the phenomenological consequences of our scenario. Following our assumption of having a mass parameter for the anomalous just slightly above the TeV scale, we fix βTeV. The mass scale in the gaugino sector is set to be .
8.1. Charge Bounds
The model parameter space can in principle be constrained by precision EW measurements [101]. However, since βTeV, every value of and is allowed by EW precision data if . So the only relevant constraints are (3.18) and (4.24) that are plotted, respectively, with a red and a blue region, in Figure 1 in the plane (, ).
8.2. Free Parameters
Here we discuss which parameters remain free in our model after all the constraints discussed in the previous sections are imposed. Our choice for the Higgs charges corresponds to the yellow spot in Figure 1: In order to fix the remaining parameters (, , , , ) we assume GeV, and then we choose some benchmark value for and in the sector (we recall that ββ(see Section 4)): The next step is to solve the minima conditions (4.14) determining , , as function of . In the limit in which , we get In Appendix B we report the exact formulae. Thus the only remaining free parameters are and , and we perform the following analysis of the mass spectrum as a function of and . A lower bound on as a function of can be obtained, given the approximation (4.16); from (4.19), where we used the relation Thus the lower bound on is obtained simply by setting : The condition must hold since otherwise we would have a massless scalar field in the spectrum (see (4.25)). Another lower bound, , can be obtained from the condition (4.12), by solving the minima conditions (4.14) and by substituting the corresponding , and values (8.3). The resulting lower bound can be expressed as No upper bound can be imposed; hence we decide to perform our analysis by considering βTeV.
The parameters and are of a particular phenomenological importance since they appear in the and terms (see (4.5) and (4.6)). In the case A, is in the range ββGeV and is in the range ββGeV while in the case B, is in the range βGeV and is in the range ββGeV. These values are in the right range to solve the -problem.
8.3. Mass Spectrum
(A)With such choice the gauge vector sector is completely fixed up to a dependence. Anyway even such a dependence can be safely ignored with a very good approximation in the new gauge sector since the mixing is strongly suppressed. So for each value, we have where with we denote the -like vector.(B)As in the previous case, we just give the masses where as in the previous case is -like.
We will not give the exact values of the mass. It is enough for our purposes to know that they are compatible with the bounds of Section 8.1. Both case A and B are compatible with CDF bounds about direct production [102].
Recent LHC data have restricted the most probable range for the Higgs particle mass to be GeV (ATLAS) [103] and (CMS) [104]. Moreover, there are hints observed by both CMS and ATLAS of an excess of events that might correspond to decays of a Higgs particle with a mass in a range close to 125ββGeV. So, in Figures 2 and 3 we give region plots showing the allowed values of and for case A (B) and . The red region is the one in which where the mass is computed considering 1-loop corrections. Since it turns out that the top squarks have small mixing angle and considering the limit , we have [93] where is the tree-level mass and we used . There is an approximated inverse correlation between and in the mass allowed region because the 1-loop correction in (8.10) increases for increasing values of or . The mass allowed region is almost the same for case A and B because of two reasons: (i)the mixing with is suppressed,(ii)the parameters in the scalar potential (4.22) are ruled by the square mass parameters and , and the first one turns out to be dominant.
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The magenta region satisfies a milder constraint on the light Higgs boson: ββGeV. In order to be more conservative, we imposed the joint constraints of ATLAS and CMS.
The blue region satisfies all the mass bounds on the sparticles and requires a neutralino LSP. We considered two possibilities: one more optimistic (Figure 2) using the PDG bounds [105, 106] and one more conservative (Figure 3) using recent LHC data [107, 108]. The combination of the gluino mass bound with a neutralino LSP is a strong constraint that reduces drastically the allowed parameter space. In some cases there is not even a blue region, which means that we cannot satisfy simultaneously all the mass bounds and have a neutralino LSP, so they are completely ruled out. When the gluino mass bound is from PDG, case A is allowed; otherwise it is completely ruled out and only case B for presents allowed regions. We notice that case A favors low values, while case B favors high values. For every allowed case we choose a benchmark point (yellow spots in Figures 2 and 3):(i)case A, , TeV and so that GeV; (ii)case A, , TeV and so that GeV; (iii)case B, , TeV and so that GeV;(iv)case B, , TeV and so that GeV, and we give the full mass spectrum in Figures 4 and 5.
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All the benchmark points share some common features. (i)The LSP is the lightest neutralino of the new sector: in case A it is a combination of and while in case B is almost a pure . (ii)An approximated mass degeneracy of , , and holds, and their masses satisfy the bounds of [96, 109]. (iii)The lightest sleptons is a sneutrino, except for when it is (iv)The lightest squark is , except for when it is (v)The first and second family left-handed squarks/sleptons are likely to be lighter than their right-handed counterparts. This is at odds with the usual MSSM cases [93]. (vi) is close in mass with . and are heavier than all sfermions. (vii)The gluino is close in mass to and which are gaugino-like. Moreover it is lighter than all the squarks except for point (i). So it turns out to be long lived, specially in case B where the approximated mass degeneracy involves also the LSP. Long-lived gluinos bind with SM quarks and gluons from the vacuum during the hadronisation process and produce R-hadrons. R-hadrons are among the most interesting searches at LHC. Anyway we will come back to this point with a more detailed study in a forthcoming paper. (viii)There is an approximated mass degeneracy between and because using the charge constraints (3.16) and (8.1) we get and . (ix) except for point (i).
Case B points deserve some more comments.
and are out of the plot of point (iv) because they are heavier than 6βTeV. is among the lightest not SM particle, so it can decay only into SM particles, because of energy and R-parity conservation. So is long lived, because SM particles are coupled to only through the suppressed mixing or through the Higgs scalars which present a tiny mixing with .
It is not an easy task to compare the resulting spectrum we get for our model with those related to the rich zoology of supersymmetry breaking scenarios. It is worth to stress anyway that the two representative spectrums showed in Figure 5 which encode the key features of our scenarios listed above are not reproduced in any of the benchmark points showed in [110, 111].
9. Conclusions
In this paper we presented a viable mechanism to generate soft supersymmetry breaking terms in the framework of a minimal supersymmetric anomalous extension of the SM. The crucial ingredient is a non perturbative term in the superpotential (2.3) which couples the StΓΌckelberg field to the Higgs sector. This term is related to the generation of a suitable and terms (see (4.5) and (4.6)) in the low-energy effective action when the StΓΌckelberg gets vev. We argued about the origin of this term from an exotic instanton in an intersecting D-brane setup. We computed the spectrum of our model as a function of the saxion vev and for different choices of the remaining free parameters. We checked our results against known phenomenological bounds, namely, current lower bounds on the mass of the scalar and fermionic superpartners. We analyzed a scenario in which the anomalous sector is the source of the soft supersymmetry breaking terms while the corresponding vector and StΓΌckelberg multiplets are not present in the low-energy effective action. For what concerns the non anomalous sector, we took into account two different cases (dubbed case A and case B).
As we stated in Section 8, by applying some phenomenological constraints we were able to derive some bounds on the saxion vev , which is the relevant parameter setting the mass scale of the scalars. The strongest constraints on and come from the combined requirement of or (), a neutralino LSP, and that all mass bounds (specially the gluino one) are fulfilled. In Figure 2 (pre-LHC bounds) and 8.3 (preliminary LHC bounds), we summarize the allowed regions for . In the first case, by requiring a phenomenological appealing neutralino LSP, we get an allowed of few TeV up to βTeV for the A and B scenarios respectively. In the second case (preliminary LHC bounds), we get that only the B scenario is allowed with βTeV. These results can be seen as a bound that a concrete D-brane model has to satisfy. We deserve this analysis for future work.
In Figure 5 we explicitly showed two benchmark mass spectrums for our model with and which fulfill the above bounds. The cases shared different peculiar features: the LSP is the lightest neutralino of the new sector, there is a near mass degeneracy between , and , and and the lightest sleptons is a sneutrino except for when it is stau, the lightest squark is a except for , when it is a sbottom, the first and second family left-handed squarks/sleptons are typically lighter than their right-handed counterparts. Moreover in case B the gluino is long lived and can produce R-hadrons. It turns out that these features are not reproduced in any of the widely studied benchmark points presented in [110, 111].
Appendices
A. Anomalous Lagrangians
The Lagrangian involved in the anomaly cancellation procedure is where the index runs over the , , , , and gauge groups respectively, and the constants are fixed by the anomaly cancellation.
Since we have only one anomalous , we can avoid the use of GCS terms, distributing the anomalies only on the vertices. So we have where the βs are the corresponding anomalies: where we used the constraints (3.13). Imposing the conditions (3.16) we get We recall that (A.8) is not a consequence of (3.16), but rather (3.16) is a consequence of imposing (A.8) in order to cancel the kinetic mixing.
B. Exact Fixed Parameters
In this Appendix section we give the exact values for the , , parameters determined in Section 8.2. Solving the minima conditions (4.14), we get
Acknowledgments
A. Lionetto acknowledges M. Bianchi, E. Kiritsis, and R. Richter for useful discussions and comments. A. Racioppi acknowledges M. Raidal for discussions and the ESF JD164 contract for financial support.