Soft Terms from Broken Symmetries

Understand

In theories of phyiscs beyond the Standard Model (SM), visible sector fields often carry quantum numbers under additional gauge symmetries.

• One could then imagine a scenario in which these extra gauge symmetries play a role in transmitting supersymmetry breaking from a hidden sector to the Supersymmetric Standard Model (SSM).
• In this paper we present a general formalism for studying the resulting hidden sectors and calculating the corresponding gauge mediated soft parameters.
• We find that a large class of generic models features a leading universal contribution to the soft scalar masses that only depends on the scale of Higgsing, even if the model is strongly coupled.