Compositeness and Supersymmetry Breaking in the Observable Sector

Abstract

We consider models for physics beyond the standard model in which supersymmetry is broken spontaneously near the weak scale by fields that are charged under electroweak symmetry. We show that this is possible if some or all of the light quarks and leptons are composite near the weak scale. Flavor-changing neutral currents can be naturally suppressed by a GIM mechanism or by approximate flavor symmetries. CP and B violation may be suppressed by accidental symmetries. We give a general effective field theory analysis of such models, and argue that they can be phenomenologically acceptable and lead to interesting observable signals in future experiments. We then construct explicit models based on non-perturbative effects discovered by Seiberg.