The Vacuum Moduli Space of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model

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Main Authors: He, Yang-Hui, Jejjala, Vishnu, Nelson, Brent D., Schenck, Hal, Stillman, Michael
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author He, Yang-Hui
Jejjala, Vishnu
Nelson, Brent D.
Schenck, Hal
Stillman, Michael
author_facet He, Yang-Hui
Jejjala, Vishnu
Nelson, Brent D.
Schenck, Hal
Stillman, Michael
contents A starting point in the study of the minimal supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) is the vacuum moduli space, which is a highly complicated algebraic variety: it is the image of an affine variety $X \subset \mathbb{C}^{49}$ under a symplectic quotient map $ϕ$ to $\mathbb{C}^{973}$. Previous work computed the vacuum moduli space of the electroweak sector; geometrically this corresponds to studying a restriction of $ϕ$: $\mathbb{C}^{13} \stackrel{ϕ^{\texttt{res}}}{\longrightarrow} \mathbb{C}^{22}$. We analyze the geometry of the full vacuum moduli space for superpotentials $W_{\rm minimal}$ (without neutrinos) and $W_{\rm MSSM}$ (with neutrinos) in $\mathbb{C}^{973}$. In both cases, we prove that $X$ consists of three irreducible components $X_1$, $X_2$, and $X_3$, and determine the images $M_i$ of the $X_i$ under $ϕ$. For $W_{\rm minimal}$ we show they have, respectively, dimensions $1$, $15$, and $29$, and prove that each of the $M_i$ is a rational variety, while for $W_{\rm MSSM}$ we show that $M_3$ is the only component. Restricting the $M_i$ to the electroweak sector, we recover known results. We describe the components of the vacuum moduli space geometrically in terms of incidence varieties to a product of Segre varieties.
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He, Yang-Hui
Jejjala, Vishnu
Nelson, Brent D.
Schenck, Hal
Stillman, Michael
High Energy Physics - Theory
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Algebraic Geometry
A starting point in the study of the minimal supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) is the vacuum moduli space, which is a highly complicated algebraic variety: it is the image of an affine variety $X \subset \mathbb{C}^{49}$ under a symplectic quotient map $ϕ$ to $\mathbb{C}^{973}$. Previous work computed the vacuum moduli space of the electroweak sector; geometrically this corresponds to studying a restriction of $ϕ$: $\mathbb{C}^{13} \stackrel{ϕ^{\texttt{res}}}{\longrightarrow} \mathbb{C}^{22}$. We analyze the geometry of the full vacuum moduli space for superpotentials $W_{\rm minimal}$ (without neutrinos) and $W_{\rm MSSM}$ (with neutrinos) in $\mathbb{C}^{973}$. In both cases, we prove that $X$ consists of three irreducible components $X_1$, $X_2$, and $X_3$, and determine the images $M_i$ of the $X_i$ under $ϕ$. For $W_{\rm minimal}$ we show they have, respectively, dimensions $1$, $15$, and $29$, and prove that each of the $M_i$ is a rational variety, while for $W_{\rm MSSM}$ we show that $M_3$ is the only component. Restricting the $M_i$ to the electroweak sector, we recover known results. We describe the components of the vacuum moduli space geometrically in terms of incidence varieties to a product of Segre varieties.
title The Vacuum Moduli Space of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Algebraic Geometry
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13868