Aspects of Supersymmetry Breaking in String Theory

by Augusto Sagnotti (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)

Wednesday 11 Apr 2018, 14:30 → 15:30 Europe/Berlin

build. 2a, SR2 (DESY Hamburg)

Supersymmetry breaking is a crucial ingredient of the picture centered around String Theory, and yet it brings along puzzles and difficulties that touch upon the foundations of the subject and remain largely unresolved. I shall provide an account of these facts before focussing on "brane supersymmetry breaking", a peculiar option afforded by models with open sectors. I shall also try, nonetheless, to draw from these systems some clues, and I shall discuss some ongoing comparisons with experiments.

Slides DESY_2018_pdf.pdf