Supersymmetric Unification in Warped Space

Abstract

Supersymmetric unification in warped space provides new possibilities for model building. I argue that the picture of warped supersymmetric unification arises naturally through the AdS/CFT correspondence from the assumption that supersymmetry is dynamically broken at a scale about (10 - 100) TeV, and present several fully realistic theories in this framework. In the minimal model, the bulk SU(5) gauge group is broken at the Planck brane by boundary conditions, while supersymmetry is broken at the TeV brane. The theory preserves the successes of conventional supersymmetric unification, and yet physics at accessible energies has a drastic departure from that of the conventional scenario. There are also several variations of the minimal model giving distinct phenomenologies. These theories can provide a basis for phenomenological studies of dynamical supersymmetry breaking at low energies.

23 pages, 11 figures, contribution to the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions (SUSY 2004), Tsukuba, Japan, June 2004