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The SQCD vacuum coupled to supergravity and string theory moduli

Thomas Dent

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/0006101

Abstract

We calculate the scalar potential of supersymmetric QCD (in the regime Nf < Nc) coupled to N=1 supergravity with moduli-dependent gauge kinetic function and masses. The gauge dynamics are described by the Taylor-Veneziano-Yankielowicz superpotential for composite effective fields. The potential can be expanded about the ``truncated'' point in the gaugino and matter condensate directions in order to find corrections to the globally supersymmetric minimum. The results are relevant to the phenomenology of supersymmetry-breaking in string-inspired supergravity models, and also to recent work on domain walls in SQCD.

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