Goldstone Gauginos
Supersymmetric theories with Dirac gauginos stand to soften the sensitivity of the weak scale to the gaugino mass, but simple UV completions of these scenarios face some difficulty in avoiding the generation of unstable field directions. I'll discuss simple symmetry arguments that preclude these problems, and will present implementations of such a symmetry within extensions of conventional weak scale SUSY.
Nov 4 at 4pm in Geo/Phys 407