Generalized Chern-Simons Terms and Chiral Anomalies in N=1 Supersymmetry

doi:https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.0801.1666

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Generalized Chern-Simons Terms and Chiral Anomalies in N=1 Supersymmetry

Marco Zagermann-2008-01-10-ArXiv.org

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The gauging of axionic, Stueckelberg-type, shift symmetries with generalized Chern-Simons terms and the Green-Schwarz mechanism of anomaly cancellation has recently been studied in the context of certain string compactifications and with regard to the phenomenology of unusual variants of Z'-bosons. In this talk, following recent work with De Rydt, Rosseel, Schmidt and Van Proeyen, I summarize how such theories can be reconciled with global and local N=1 supersymmetry. Two simple consistency conditions are shown to encode strong constraints on the allowed anomalies for different types of gauge groups.

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The gauging of axionic, Stueckelberg-type, shift symmetries with generalized Chern-Simons terms and the Green-Schwarz mechanism of anomaly cancellation has recently been studied in the context of certain string compactifications and with regard to the phenomenology of unusual variants of Z'-bosons. In this talk, following recent work with De Rydt, Rosseel, Schmidt and Van Proeyen, I summarize how such theories can be reconciled with global and local N=1 supersymmetry. Two simple consistency conditions are shown to encode strong constraints on the allowed anomalies for different types of gauge groups.

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SupersymmetryPhysicsTheoretical physicsHomogeneous spaceAnomaly (physics)Chern–Simons theoryPhenomenology (philosophy)Boson

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