Hidden Matter Condensation Effects on Supersymmetry Breaking

Abstract

We investigate the effects of hidden matter condensation on supersymmetry breaking in supergravity models derived from free fermionic strings. We find that the minimum of the effective potential in the modulus direction depends strongly on only one parameter which is fixed by the hidden sector. For nonpositive values of the parameter the potential is unstable which constrains realistic models severely. For positive and decreasing values which correspond to more and/or lighter hidden matter, $T_R$ increases whereas $T_I$ is periodic and depends on the parameter very weakly. Supersymmetry can be broken in the matter direction with a stable vacuum only if the fields which give mass to the hidden matter are light and have modulus independent Kahler potentials. Then, for a wide range of model parameters, supersymmetry is mainly broken by hidden matter condensation in the matter direction rather than by hidden gaugino condensation in the modulus direction.