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Informal Pizza Seminar

Spontaneous Localization of Bulk Matter Fields

Stefan Groot Nibbelink

University of Victoria

Some supersymmetric orbifold models in 5 dimensions with a U(1) vector multiplet and hyper multiplets in the bulk are unstable. The Fayet-Iliopoulos terms generated at the one loop level, are proportional to delta-functions and their double derivatives at the two boundaries. A consequence of this is that the zero modes of the hyper multiplets get localized on one or both branes. Some consequences for orbifold model building and anomaly considerations are discussed.

Tuesday, March 11th 2003, 13:00
Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, room 326