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Claudio Scrucca

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Scalar masses in general N=2 gauged supergravity theories

Claudio Scrucca, Paul Smyth, Francesca Catino

We readdress the question of whether any universal upper bound exists on the square mass m(2) of the lightest scalar around a supersymmetry breaking vacuum in generic N=2 gauged supergravity theories for a given gravitino mass m(3/2) and cosmological const ...

Springer Nature2014

Simple metastable de Sitter vacua in N=2 gauged supergravity

Claudio Scrucca, Paul Smyth, Francesca Catino

We construct a simple class of N=2 gauged supergravity theories that admit metastable de Sitter vacua, generalizing the recent work done in the context of rigid supersymmetry. The setup involves one hypermultiplet and one vector multiplet spanning suitably ...

Springer Nature2013

Metastable spontaneous breaking of N=2 supersymmetry

Claudio Scrucca, Benoît Légeret, Paul Smyth

We show that contrary to the common lore it is possible to spontaneously break N = 2 supersymmetry even in simple theories without constant Fayet-Iliopoulos terms. We consider the most general N = 2 supersymmetric theory with one hypermultiplet and one vec ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

Metastable de Sitter vacua in N=2 to N=1 truncated supergravity

Claudio Scrucca, Paul Smyth, Francesca Catino

We study the possibility of achieving metastable de Sitter vacua in general N=2 to N=1 truncated supergravities without vector multiplets, and compare with the situations arising in N=2 theories with only hypermultiplets and N=1 theories with only chiral m ...

Springer Nature2012

The lightest scalar in theories with broken supersymmetry

Claudio Scrucca, Leonardo Brizi

We study the scalar mass matrix of general supersymmetric theories with local gauge symmetries, and derive an absolute upper bound on the lightest scalar mass. This bound can be saturated by suitably tuning the superpotential, and its positivity therefore ...

Springer Nature2011

Sequestering by global symmetries in Calabi–Yau string models

Christopher John Andrey, Claudio Scrucca

We study the possibility of realizing an effective sequestering between visible and hidden sectors in generic heterotic string models, generalizing previous work on orbifold constructions to smooth Calabi-Yau compactifications. In these theories, genuine s ...

Elsevier2011

Effects of heavy modes on vacuum stability in supersymmetric theories

Claudio Scrucca, Leonardo Brizi

We study the effects induced by heavy fields on the masses of light fields in supersymmetric theories, under the assumption that the heavy mass scale is much higher than the supersymmetry breaking scale. We show that the square-masses of light scalar field ...

Springer Nature2010

Metastable supersymmetry breaking in N=2 non-linear sigma-models

Jean-Claude Jacot, Claudio Scrucca

We perform a general study of the issue of metastability for supersymmetry-breaking vacua in theories with N=1 and N=2 global supersymmetry. This problem turns out to capture all the important qualitative features of the corresponding question in theories ...

Elsevier2010

Mildly sequestered supergravity models and their realization in string theory

Christopher John Andrey, Claudio Scrucca

We elaborate on the idea that five-dimensional models where sequestering is spoiled due to contact interactions induced by vector multiplets may still be mildly sequestered if a global version of the gauge symmetry associated to the latter survives in the ...

2010

Gaugino mass in AdS space

Riccardo Rattazzi, Claudio Scrucca

We study supersymmetric QED in AdS(4) with massless matter. At 1-loop the ultra-violet regulator of the theory generates a contribution to the gaugino mass that is naively inconsistent with unbroken supersymmetry. We show that this effect, known in flat sp ...

Springer Nature2009

Globally and locally supersymmetric effective theories for light fields

Claudio Scrucca, Leonardo Brizi

We reconsider the general question of how to characterize most efficiently the low-energy effective theory obtained by integrating out heavy modes in globally and locally supersymmetric theories. We consider theories with chiral and vector multiplets and i ...

2009

No metastable de Sitter vacua in N=2 supergravity with only hypermultiplets

Claudio Scrucca

We study the stability of vacua with spontaneously broken supersymmetry in N = 2 supergravity theories with only hypermultiplets. Focusing on the projection of the scalar mass matrix along the sGoldstino directions, we are able to derive a universal upper ...

Springer Nature2009

Constructing de Sitter vacua in no-scale string models without uplifting

Claudio Scrucca

We develop a method for constructing metastable de Sitter vacua in N = 1 supergravity models describing the no-scale volume moduli sector of Calabi-Yau string compactifications. We consider both heterotic and orientifold models. Our main guideline is the n ...

Springer Nature2009

Constraints from F and D supersymmetry breaking in general supergravity theories

Claudio Scrucca

We study the conditions under which a generic supergravity model involving chiral and vector multiplets can admit vacua with spontaneously broken supersymmetry and realistic cosmological constant. We find that the existence of such viable vacua implies som ...

2008

Constraints on modular inflation in supergravity and string theory

Claudio Scrucca

We perform a general algebraic analysis on the possibility of realising slow-roll inflation in the moduli sector of string models. This problem turns out to be very closely related to the characterisation of models admitting metastable vacua with non-negat ...

Springer Nature2008

De Sitter vacua in no-scale supergravities and Calabi-Yau string models

Claudio Scrucca

We perform a general analysis on the possibility of obtaining metastable vacua with spontaneously broken N = 1 supersymmetry and non-negative cosmological constant in the moduli sector of string models. More specifically, we study the condition under which ...

Springer Nature2008

Soft masses in superstring models with anomalous U(1) symmetries

Claudio Scrucca

We analyze the general structure of soft scalar masses emerging in superstring models involving anomalous U(1) symmetries, with the aim of characterizing more systematically the circumstances under which they can happen to be flavor universal. We consider ...

Springer Nature2007

Metastable supergravity vacua with F and D supersymmetry breaking

Claudio Scrucca

We study the conditions under which a generic supergravity model involving chiral and vector multiplets can admit viable metastable vacua with spontaneously broken supersymmetry and realistic cosmological constant. To do so, we impose that on the vacuum th ...

Springer Nature2007