Single charged-field D-term breaking

ID: single-charged-field-d-term-breaking

For one charged chiral superfield, canonical kinetic terms, no nonconstant gauge-invariant superpotential, and , the sign of selects the vacuum. If , the minimum has , positive vacuum energy, unbroken internal gauge symmetry and a gaugino Goldstino; the scalar squared mass is while its chiral fermion is massless. If , a scalar condensate cancels the auxiliary field, preserving supersymmetry while Higgsing the gauge group. These are classical statements; a consistent quantum charged spectrum must cancel its gauge anomalies.

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