Metastable Supersymmetry Breaking in a Cooling Universe

Abstract

I put metastable supersymmetry breaking in a cosmological context. I argue that under reasonable assumptions, the cooling down early Universe favors metastable SUSY-breaking vacua over the stable supersymmetric vacua. To illustrate the general argument, I analyze the early-Universe history of the Intriligator-Seiberg-Shih model.

Comments: Plenary talk at PASCOS 07 converence, based on hep-th/0611018. 8 dense pages, LaTeX+AIP6x9+PStricks