Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5494386 | Nuclear Physics B | 2017 | 33 Pages |
Abstract
We consider a class of heterotic N=2â0 super no-scale Z2-orbifold models. An appropriate stringy Scherk-Schwarz supersymmetry breaking induces tree level masses to all massless bosons of the twisted hypermultiplets and therefore stabilizes all twisted moduli. At high supersymmetry breaking scale, the tachyons that occur in the N=4â0 parent theories are projected out, and no Hagedorn-like instability takes place in the N=2â0 models (for small enough marginal deformations). At low supersymmetry breaking scale, the stability of the untwisted moduli is studied at the quantum level by taking into account both untwisted and twisted contributions to the 1-loop effective potential. The latter depends on the specific branch of the gauge theory along which the background can be deformed. We derive its expression in terms of all classical marginal deformations in the pure Coulomb phase, and in some mixed Coulomb/Higgs phases. In this class of models, the super no-scale condition requires having at the massless level equal numbers of untwisted bosonic and twisted fermionic degrees of freedom. Finally, we show that N=1â0 super no-scale models are obtained by implementing a second Z2 orbifold twist on N=2â0 super no-scale Z2-orbifold models.
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Authors
Costas Kounnas, Hervé Partouche,