Fayet-Iliopoulos terms in supergravity without gauged R-symmetry

Understand

We construct a supergravity-Maxwell theory with a novel embedding of the Fayet-Iliopoulos D-term, leading to spontaneous supersymmetry breaking.

• The gauging of the R-symmetry is not required and a gravitino mass is allowed for a generic vacuum.
• When matter couplings are introduced, an uplift through a positive definite contribution to the scalar potential is obtained.
• We observe a notable similarity to the $\overline{D3}$ uplift constructions and we give a natural description in terms of constrained multiplets.