Supersymmetry Breaks when Gauge Symmetry Breaks: Cybersusy I

Abstract

This paper summarizes a new approach to supersymmetry breaking in the supersymmetric standard model (SSM). The approach arises from some remarkable features of the BRS cohomology for composite operators in the SSM, and the behaviour of those operators when gauge symmetry is spontaneously broken. A new realization of supersymmetry arises for these operators. This realization is equivalent to the generation of supersymmetry anomalies, though they are not present in the usual sense. The consequences are worked out in detail for the electron and neutrino flavour triplets, by using the appropriate effective action to analyze the new anomalous realization of supersymmetry. This effective action generates a mass spectrum for leptons that is consistent with present experimental data. There is no vacuum energy problem, and no annoying mass sum rules are present.