- Soft SUSY breaking
In
theoretical physics , soft SUSY breaking is type ofsupersymmetry breaking that does not causeultraviolet divergence s to appear in scalar masses. These terms arerelevant operator s—i.e. operators whose coefficients have a positive dimension of mass—though there are some exceptions.Soft SUSY breaking was proposed in 1981 by
Howard Georgi andSavas Dimopoulos . Before this, dynamical models of supersymmetry breaking were being used that suffered from giving rise to color and charge breaking vacua.Soft SUSY breaking decouples the origin of supersymmetry breaking from its phenomenological consequences. In effect, soft susy breaking adds
explicit symmetry breaking to the supersymmetric Standard Model Lagrangian. The source of susy breaking results from a different sector wheresupersymmetry is broken spontaneously. Divorcing the spontaneous supersymmetry breaking from the supersymmetric Standard Model leads to the notion of mediated supersymmetry breaking.Examples of Soft Susy Breaking Operators
* Gaugino Mass
* Scalar mass squareds
* Scalar trilinear interactions (A-Terms)
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