RHCPP 98-18T (PUB)
January 1998

 
 

Theoretical Particle Physics


 
The Supersymmetric CP-problem in orbifold compactifications
D Bailin, G V Kraniotis, A Love
 
Abstract
The possibility of spontaneous breaking of CP symmetry by the expectation values of orbifold moduli is investigated with particular reference to CP violating phases in soft supersymmetry breaking terms. The effect of different mechanisms for stabilising the dilaton and the form of the non-perturbative superpotential on the existence and size of these phases is studied. Models with modular symmetries which are subgroups of PSL(2, Z), as well as the single overall modulus T case with the full PSL(2, Z) modular symmetry, are discussed. Non-perturbative superpotentials involving the absolute modular invariant j(T), such as may arise from F-theory compactifications, are considered.
 
Available format: Postscript
Also published as:
Nucl Phys B518 92-116 (1998)