Moduli stabilization with Fayet-Iliopoulos uplift

TL;DR

This paper explores moduli stabilization with Fayet-Iliopoulos uplift, revealing that it leads to heavier gauginos and a compressed superpartner spectrum, offering distinctive phenomenological signatures for collider experiments.

Contribution

It introduces a novel moduli stabilization model using Fayet-Iliopoulos uplift, affecting superpartner mass hierarchies and collider phenomenology.

Findings

Gauginos are heavier than in previous models.

Superpartner spectrum can be compressed at low energy.

Sleptons are generally heavier than squarks.

Abstract

In the recent years, phenomenological models of moduli stabilization were proposed, where the dynamics of the stabilization is essentially supersymmetric, whereas an O'Rafearthaigh supersymmetry breaking sector is responsible for the "uplift" of the cosmological constant to zero. We investigate the case where the uplift is provided by a Fayet-Iliopoulos sector. We find that in this case the modulus contribution to supersymmetry breaking is larger than in the previous models. A first consequence of this class of constructions is for gauginos, which are heavier compared to previous models. In some of our explicit examples, due to a non-standard gauge-mediation type negative contribution to scalars masses, the whole superpartner spectrum can be efficiently compressed at low-energy. This provides an original phenomenology testable at the LHC, in particular sleptons are generically heavier than the squarks.