Modular symmetry of soft supersymmetry breaking terms

Shota Kikuchi, Tatsuo Kobayashi, Kaito Nasu, Hajime Otsuka, Shohei Takada, Hikaru Uchida

Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics · 2022 · 12 citations · 90 references

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Abstract We study the modular symmetry of soft supersymmetry breaking terms. Soft scalar masses and A-term coefficients are invariant under the modular symmetry when we regard the F-term as a spurion with the modular weight −2. Their flavor structure is determined by the same symmetry as Yukawa couplings, i.e., fermion masses. The modular symmetric behavior of the μ-term and B-term depends on how the μ-term is generated.

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