Stability of Metastable Vacua in Gauge Mediated SUSY Breaking Models with Ultra Light Gravitino

TL;DR

This paper examines the stability of metastable vacua in gauge mediated SUSY breaking models with ultra light gravitinos, finding that vacuum stability constrains squark masses to be within LHC-detectable ranges.

Contribution

It provides a numerical analysis of vacuum stability in models predicting ultra light gravitinos, establishing upper bounds on squark masses based on stability criteria.

Findings

Metastable vacuum stability constrains squark mass to 1800 GeV.

Numerical evaluation includes Coleman-Weinberg potential effects.

Results suggest squarks could be detected at the LHC.

Abstract

Recently Murayama and Nomura proposed a simple scheme to construct the gauge mediation models, using metastable supersymmetry breaking vacua. It has a possibility to predict the ultra light gravitino mass m_{3/2} \lesssim 16 eV, while such a light gravitino may destabilize the metastable vacua. We investigate stability of the metastable vacuum of their model. The transition rate from the false vacuum to true ones is evaluated by numerical calculation, including the Coleman-Weinberg potential destabilizing the metastable vacuum. It is found that when the messenger sector is minimal, stability of the metastable vacuum imposes an upperbound on squark mass M_{\tilde q} for the ultra light gravitino as M_{\tilde q} \lesssim 1800 GeV at most. Squarks with this mass may be found in the LHC experiments.