The tensor Goldstone multiplet for partially broken supersymmetry

We show that the tensor gauge multiplet of N=1 supersymmetry can serve as the Goldstone multiplet for partially broken rigid N=2 supersymmetry. We exploit a remarkable analogy with the Goldstone-Maxwell multiplet of hep-th/9608177 to find its nonlinear transformation law and its invariant Goldstone action. We demonstrate that the tensor multiplet has two dualities. The first transforms it into the chiral Goldstone multiplet; the other leaves it invariant.Comment: 7 pages, Latex. Expanded discussion of duality symmetrie

Radion effective theory in the detuned Randall-Sundrum model

We compute the two-derivative low-energy effective action for the radion in the (supersymmetric) Randall-Sundrum scenario with detuned brane tensions. At the classical level, a potential automatically stabilizes the distance between the branes. In the supersymmetric case, supersymmetry can be broken spontaneously by a vacuum expectation value for the fifth component of the graviphoton.Comment: 17 pages. JHEP class. New Appendix. Published versio

The Status of Supersymmetry

Supersymmetry searches are about to enter an important new era. With LEP 200 and the Main Injector, they will, for the first time, begin to probe significant regions of the supersymmetric parameter space. There is a real chance that supersymmetry might indeed be found before the advent of the LHC.Comment: Invited talk given at PbarP95, May 9-13, 1995, Fermilab. This summary is intended for experimentalist

Singular gauge transformations and supersymmetry breakdown on warped orbifolds

We have analyzed the breakdown of global supersymmetry by a non-vanishing expectation value of the fifth component of the graviphoton on warped S^1/Z_2 orbifolds. It has been demonstrated that the setups where such a breakdown is possible correspond to the models where the true gauge symmetry on the orbifold, respecting the Z_2-parities and periodicity, is broken by boundary terms. In the tuned models, giving Randall-Sundrum warp factor, gauge symmetry stays intact, and any can be gauged away without violating supersymmetry.Comment: 11 pages, Latex, version published in Phys. Lett.

Matter couplings in partially broken extended supersymmetry

We use nonlinear realizations to describe the spontaneous breaking of $N=2$ supersymmetry to $N=1$ in four dimensions. We identify the Goldstone multiplet with an $N=1$ chiral superfield, and show that chiral $N=1$ matter is consistent with the partially broken $N=2$ supersymmetry. We find that the chiral matter can be in any representation of the gauge group; no mirror particles are required. We present the Goldstone action and the general couplings to $N=1$ matter to the first nontrivial order in the scale of symmetry breaking.Comment: JHU-TIPAC-94011, 9 pages. References adde

AdS_5 Supersymmetry in N=1 Superspace

We use N=1 superspace to construct the supersymmetric matter couplings of vector and hyper multiplets in a five-dimensional anti-de Sitter spacetime background. For hypermultiplets, we find that AdS_5 supersymmetry requires the scalar fields to lie on a hyper-Kahler manifold endowed with a certain type of holomorphic Killing vector.Comment: 8 pages. Published version; revised reference