Non-minimal scalar multiplets, supersymmetry breaking and dualities

We study supersymmetry breaking in theories with non-minimal multiplets (such as the complex linear or CNM multiplets), by using superspace higher derivative terms which give rise to new supersymmetry breaking vacuum solutions on top of the standard supersymmetric vacuum. We illustrate the decoupling of the additional massive sectors inside the complex linear and the CNM multiplets and show that only the Goldstino sector is left in the low energy limit. We also discuss the duality between non-minimal scalar multiplets and chiral multiplets in the presence of superspace higher derivatives. From the superspace Noether procedure we calculate the supercurrents, and we show that in the supersymmetry breaking vacuum the chiral superfield X which enters the Ferrara-Zumino supercurrent conservation equation does indeed flow in the IR to the chiral constrained Goldstino superfield. We also provide a description of the Goldstino sector in terms of the Samuel-Wess superfield for the supersymmetry breaking mechanism at hand.


Introduction
If supersymmetry [1] is realized in nature, it has to be spontaneously broken. It is common practice to identify the supersymmetry breaking sector with some hidden sector, and its main impact in particle physics is solely the breaking of supersymmetry [2]. Therefore, the study of the various supersymmetry breaking mechanisms and the patterns they give for the breaking in the low energy, would in principle serve as a way to distinguish between the various possibilities. In this work we will study the non-minimal superfields [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15], in 4D, N = 1, as candidates for the supersymmetry breaking hidden sector.
Supersymmetry breaking by a pure complex linear superfield contribution has only recently shown to be possible [14,15]. 1 Even though a superpotential can not be used to deform the auxiliary field potential and break supersymmetry it has been found that instead one may use superspace higher derivative terms to achieve this. In particular, a model which will do this is given by (in the conventions of [1]) (1.1) The mechanism relies on the existence of several solutions to the auxiliary field equations which leads to multiple vacua with different properties. Among these vacua, there is the standard supersymmetric solution ( D 2 Σ| = 0) in which the physics is the same as in the free theory, but there also exist vacua which break supersymmetry ( D 2 Σ| = 0). In this work we will further investigate this mechanism both for the complex linear superfield but also for the chiral non-minimal (CNM) [4] multiplet, which contains both a complex linear

JHEP09(2015)177
and a chiral superfield, where the complex linear constraint is modified using the chiral field. The main advantage of the CNM multiplet is that the complex linear superfield can naturally be given a mass. A characteristic property of the supersymmetry breaking mechanism discussed in this paper is that the massless fermionic excitation generically associated with global supersymmetry breaking, the Goldstino, is identified with a fermion which in the free theory is auxiliary. In the supersymmetry breaking vacuum it acquires a kinetic term and becomes propagating. This means that the superspace higher derivative term induces supersymmetry breaking while introducing additional propagating modes. Similar properties of supersymmetric theories, not related to supersymmetry breaking, have been found in a supergravity setup [16][17][18]. In a supersymmetric setting the Goldstino can be nonlinearly embedded in a chiral superfield X N L [19,20]. This superfield satisfies the constraints which remove the scalar partner of the Goldstino from the spectrum and fix the vev of the auxiliary field to a non-vanishing value f . The constraint (1.3) can be implemented from the equation which will also yield an equation of motion for the Goldstino. It is well known that there exists a duality between models of complex linear superfields and chiral superfields. The duality is robust in the sense that it does not rely on the existence of special properties of the model, such as isometries in the case of sigma models. In fact, one might be tempted to conclude that the duality can always be performed in any model built with complex linear superfields. However, the theories studied in this paper show that in the supersymmetry breaking vacuum the complex linear model has more degrees of freedom than what can be described by a single chiral superfield. The chiral-linear duality can still be performed in a setting where one perturbatively solves the equations of motion of the parent theory around the appropriate background. In this procedure the additional degrees of freedom, even though they are dynamical, are contained in the background. We also discuss the appropriate Lagrangian description for these new degrees of freedom.
After describing the generic properties of the models, and finding the supersymmetry breaking vacua, we study their low energy limits. From the superspace Noether procedure [21], we identify the X superfield which enters the supercurrent equation [22] DαJ αα = D α X (1.5) and we show that in the IR it flows to X N L [19,20,23] as has been advocated in [24]. More precisely, we calculate the Ferrara-Zumino (FZ) supercurrent multiplet, for both the complex linear model and the CNM, and we find that in the low energy limit

JHEP09(2015)177
Since these theories have an exact R-symmetry, we also calculate the R-multiplet [25][26][27]. The existence of both the FZ-multiplet and also of the R-multiplet, provides evidence for the possibility of consistently coupling these models to the old-minimal and the newminimal supergravity. A different way of embedding the Goldstino in a superfield was invented in [28][29][30]. This procedure gives a realization of the Goldstino in terms of a constrained spinorial superfield Λ α where the constraints were explicitly given by Samuel and Wess in [30]. Already in [30], it was shown that the nonlinear embedding of the Goldstino into the chiral superfield X N L discussed above, can be realized using the Samuel-Wess superfield as (1.7) In this paper we argue that universally, for all models that break supersymmetry with a superspace higher derivative term involving complex linear superfields, the Goldstino can be embedded in the complex linear superfield using the SW-superfield as This Goldstino superfield satisfies and while it contains only the Goldstone fermion (G α ), as a propagating mode in its lowest component Λ α | = G α . We also discuss the superspace equations of motion implemented on Λ α , from these models.

Complex linear superfields and superspace higher derivatives
In this section we study the supersymmetry breaking from the non-minimal superfields and comment on the duality to chiral superfields.

CNM and supersymmetry breaking
The CNM multiplet [4] contains a complex linear superfield Σ as well as a chiral superfield Φ linked together through the modified complex linear constraint where m is a mass scale. The component definitions are

JHEP09(2015)177
In principle the component fields F , G, N , P αα , χ α and λ α are auxiliary and we integrate them out. The fields Φ, Σ constrained by (2.1) and the Lagrangian give the component Lagrangian (after we integrate out the auxiliary fields) and thus describes a free massive theory. Notice that the massive scalars z and A are accompanied by two massive Weyl spinors ρ α and ψ α , which together constitute a massive Dirac spinor. Now we turn to supersymmetry breaking. The model we study here is To understand the vacuum structure we look at the bosonic sector of the theory, which is Since N , F and P αα are auxiliary fields, we integrate them out. By varying N we get N = mĀ (2.8) which then contributes to the total scalar potential From (2.9) we see that in the vacuum z = 0 , A = 0 (2.10) therefore N = 0 . We now proceed to integrate out P αα . The variation with respect to P αα givesP which is solved for

JHEP09(2015)177
There is also the solution P ββP ββ = −4f 2 − 2 FF where P ββ =P ββ , which however we do not consider further in this paper. In the following we will always take the solution (2.12). Finally, we want to integrate out F .
The variation with respect to F gives It is easy to check that equation (2.13) has two solutions 1. The standard supersymmetric solution with F = 0. Here supersymmety is not broken and V = 0 .
2. The supersymmetry breaking solution with FF = f 2 . Here supersymmetry is broken and V = f 2 2 .
We have also included the vacuum energy of the theory, in the two vacua, such that the relation to supersymmetry breaking in evident. The basic signal for supersymmetry breaking is the existence of a fermionic Goldstone mode. i.e. the existence of a fermion which transforms with a shift under a supersymmetry transformation around the supersymmetry breaking vacuum. To understand the structure of the fermions we give the fermionic sector up to quadratic order

JHEP09(2015)177
To find the propagating modes in the two vacua, we write down the theory in the appropriate background and expand to quadratic order in the fields. We start with the standard vacuum with F = 0. There we have the exact solution F = 0 and P αα = 0, which leads to Once we integrate out the auxiliary fermions χ α and λ α , they will work as Lagrange multipliers for each other which will put them to zero, leaving behind two massive scalar multiplets, with Dirac mass for the fermions. In other words we recover the free theory we started with and with no trace of the higher dimension operator left. Note that this is an exact result, not an approximation. We will clarify this later using superspace methods.
In the supersymmetry breaking vacuum we have The quadratic contributions in this vacuum are From the Lagrangian (2.17) we see that on top of the massive sector, there is a new fermionic mode in the last line (and we have also kept the positive vacuum energy manifest). In fact, the new mode is the previously auxiliary fermion which has acquired a kinetic term and taken the role of the Goldstino which transforms under a supersymmetry transformation in the supersymmetry breaking vacuum as The fact that there exists a Goldstino is dictated by supersymmetry breaking. If we instead study the superspace formulation of the theory, we can derive the equations of motion from the Lagrangian (2.6) where now Y is a chiral superfield but Σ is unconstrained. By integrating out Y we get (2.1). If we on the other hand vary with respect toΣ we get where X N L is the Goldstino chiral superfield, which satisfies [19,20,23,24] These equations can be derived from the variation of where X is a chiral superfield and C is a chiral Lagrange multiplier superfield. In [14] it was shown that if H satisfies these equations it also solves the equation (2.21). We therefore find that H contains the Goldstino sector that we found in (2.17). Equations (2.24) and (2.25) are more restrictive than (1.2) and (1.3) since they also lead to equations of motion for the Goldstino component. Indeed, equation (2.21) can be solved only in terms of superfields which satisfy appropriate equations of motion, since it is itself an equation of motion. For further discussion on the X N L Goldstino superfield and applications to particle physics see [31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38]. Also, relations between different Goldstino realizations were given in [39]. Apart from the Goldstino sector, there is also the massive sector. For the chiral superfields Φ and Y we findD

JHEP09(2015)177
which leads to the decoupling of the massive modes, and we can set them to their vacuum values This decoupling can be also seen from the component form (2.17). For the H superfield we have seen that in the supersymmetric vacuum it trivially vanishes. In the supersymmetry breaking vacuum the H superfield stays massless and does not decouple in the IR, it describes the Goldstino sector. Indeed, if we call the Goldstino field G α we have and from the component form (2.17), we can see that the fermion λ α is the only field that will appear in the IR. In the next section we will revisit the low energy behavior of the theory using supercurrent methods [24].

Complex linear multiplet, supersymmetry breaking and mediation
For the massless complex linear multiplet we havē with components defined as in (2.3). The supersymmetry breaking mechanism we now describe was introduced in [14]. The Lagrangian used to achieve this is with equations of motion whereΦ is an arbitrary chiral superfield zero mode of the D α operator, and for consistency of (2.35) has to satisfyD Similarly to the previous model there is a supersymmetric vacuum in which Σ =Φ (2.37) and the theory just reduces to a free chiral superfield. There is also a supersymmetry breaking vacuum solution in which we solve the equation using the same reasoning as when solving equation (2.21) leading to

JHEP09(2015)177
with X N L satisfying (2.24) and (2.25) and Φ satisfying (2.36). In the supersymmetric vacuum, the theory is described by a massless chiral superfield and in the SUSY breaking vacuum the theory contains a massless chiral superfield and a massless Goldstino. All the excitations of the model stay massless and the only thing that happens in the SUSY breaking vacuum is that there is a new propagating fermionic degree of freedom, the Goldstino. For similar models with chiral superfields see for example [40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50]. For supersymmetry breaking with a modified complex linear see [13].
A natural question to ask is how disentangled these degrees of freedom are. Since they all have the same mass they could mix in some nontrivial way. To get a clearer picture of the independence of the degrees of freedom of the theory, we will now show how to mediate the supersymmetry breaking to the scalar sector. This can be achieved by modifying the higher derivative term where the M 2 term is there to mediate the supersymmetry breaking to the scalar sector, by giving rise to masses.
To study the vacuum structure we write down the bosonic sector The equations for P αα give P αα = 0, and for the scalar F we have two solutions 1. The trivial vacuum with F = 0. Here supersymmety is not broken and V = 0 .
2. The susy breaking vacuum with FF = f 2 . Here supersymmetry is broken and Let us study the supersymmetry breaking vacuum. If we expand the theory around that solution we see that the auxiliary fermion λ α now has a kinetic term and in fact is the Goldstone mode (δλ α = f ǫ α + · · · ). The bosonic sector reads and for small field excitations the scalar potential becomes

JHEP09(2015)177
therefore the scalar has become massive. One can check that the fermions ψ α remain massless. Therefore, supersymmetry is broken and it is also mediated to the bosonic sector. The superspace equations of motion which follow from the Lagrangian (2.39) arē This equation can be rewritten as where Φ is a chiral superfield arising as the zero mode of theDα operator. If one is interested in the low energy behavior of the theory, the superspace equations have a simple solution as we will see. The low energy limit also implies the formal limit In this limit the equation breaks into two parts which decouple from each other. This happens because if we study the theory in the IR and M → ∞, the fluctuations of the fields are much smaller than M , therefore can not affect the M dependent part; the two equations have to be solved independently. For the part of the equations of motion which does not contain M we find which is the same equation as in the model without mediation (2.35). The solution is again the same, namelyΣ and where the presence of X N L indicates that we are looking at the supersymmetry breaking solution. Again the Goldstino is the auxiliary field λ α = D α Σ| = D α X N L |, which becomes propagating when supersymmetry is broken.
The part proportional to M should rather be solved as a constraint than as an equations of motion. Indeed we find that

JHEP09(2015)177
is always satisfied if we use (2.48) and constrain Φ to satisfy It has been shown in [24] that this particular constraint (2.51) corresponds to the decoupling of the scalar lowest component of Φ, namely A, which is replaced with Goldstino and ψ fermions. Indeed, an inspection of the component form shows that in the limit M → ∞, the scalar becomes very heavy and decouples from the IR physics. Now equation (2.49) together with (2.51) makes perfect sense; it describes a massless fermion with no superpartner. This fermion is of course not the Goldstino since D 2Φ | = 0. Alternatively, one may mediate the supersymmetry breaking to the fermionic sector (ψ α ) via the term which in the breaking vacuum generates masses In the formal limit which leads to the decoupling of the very massive fermion ψ α , the part of the equations of motion which is proportional to M ψ becomes a constraint and enforces the condition This constraint has indeed been shown to correspond to the decoupling of the fermionic sector of matter superfields [24]. We therefore see that all the sectors except the Goldstino, can be consistently decoupled in the IR by introducing mass terms, leaving behind only the Goldstino superfield.

Comments on duality
It is well known that the complex linear superfield can be dualized to a chiral superfield. Similarly, the CNM multiplet is known to be dual to two massive chiral superfields. The duality is not dependent on any special properties of the model such as the existence

JHEP09(2015)177
of the target space of a sigma model and therefore believed to be valid quite generally. The procedure can be outlined as follows. Start with a theory defined by a Lagrangian depending on a complex linear superfield and its derivatives Integrating out the chiral field Φ imposes the complex linearity constraint on Σ which gives back the original theory. If we on the other hand integrate out Σ we get a complicated equation which needs to be inverted as Σ = Σ(Φ,Φ, DΦ,DΦ, . . .) and inserted back in (2.59) for us to be able to write the action of the dual theory depending on the chiral superfield Φ.
Thinking of the field Σ as a small fluctuation around a vacuum value and organizing the right hand side of (2.60) in a series with smaller and smaller terms one may invert the series term by term to find Σ as a function of Φ. Although straightforward, this procedure becomes nontrivial when the theory has several possible vacua around which we may invert the equations of motion (2.60). Choosing different vacua gives different dual theories so the duality procedure, although valid, will capture only the physics of the particular vacua around which we choose to invert. Also, if there are new propagating degrees of freedom in the vacuum at hand, the dual theory will not see them since they belong to the background. One would have to insert them by hand after performing the duality. We have already seen that by introducing superspace higher derivatives together with complex linear superfields or CNM multiplets, we do get theories with several vacua. Let us look at how the duality works for several interesting examples.
As an example we take the complex linear theory with the higher derivative term discussed in (2.33). The equation that needs to be inverted is then

JHEP09(2015)177
When we insert this into (2.61) to find the next order corrections we see that due to the particular structure of the higher derivative term, we in fact have the full inverted solution in both cases. If we insert any of these solutions into the original action we get a free chiral theory, the Goldstino of the supersymmetry breaking vacua needs to be inserted by hand. It is instructive to contrast this model with the very similar looking theory defined by the Lagrangian (2.66) Here the superspace equations of motion arē (2.67) In this case there is no supersymmetry breaking vacuum and the only possible solution is to invert around the trivial vacuum Σ = 0 If we insert this into (2.67) we are left with term of third order in Φ so the procedure has to continue. Following this program to the end one can shown that the equation (2.67) can be inverted as and after plugging back into (2.66) one ends up with a higher derivative theory for the chiral superfield Φ [51,52].
As we have seen, to perform the inversion procedure, we had to treat the new degrees of freedom as a background, therefore a Lagrangian description of the new degrees of freedom was not possible. Now we would like to present a complementary approach to the previous discussion, which will allow us to find a Lagrangian which will also include the new superfields.
Let us remind the reader the duality for the free complex linear multiplet. We have where Φ is a chiral superfield but Σ is unconstrained. By integrating out Φ we get that D 2 Σ = 0, therefore we have a complex linear multiplet. If we now define the unconstrained superfields Ξ as

JHEP09(2015)177
We may trivially integrate out Ξ. We see that the theory is dual to a free massless chiral superfield. The last step completes the duality and is important for our discussions. We note that if one turns to the component form of (2.72), there will not be any kinetic terms for the component fields of Ξ, therefore here it is indeed non-dynamical.
The general complex linear model can be written as where Ω(Σ ,Σ) may contain also superspace higher derivative terms (D α Σ , D 2 Σ · · · ) as we said earlier. Here Σ is unconstrained but becomes a complex linear when we integrate out the chiral superfield Φ. Again we define Ξ = Σ −Φ (2.74) and the theory becomes Now we have to complete the duality by integrating out Ξ from (2.75). Two things may happen here.
1. The variation with respect to Ξ yields algebraic equations and Ξ can be integrated out. In case the equations are complicated but solvable, a solution can still be found around Ξ = 0, up to the desired order, by inverting them as described earlier.
2. The variation with respect to Ξ yields equations of motion and Ξ can not be integrated out; Ξ is dynamical and it is related to dynamical auxiliary fields. The Lagrangian (2.75) makes the new degrees of freedom manifest, and it provides the Lagrangian description for the theory.
If a theory is described by the first or the second case depends on the particular form of the superspace function Ω(Σ ,Σ , D α Σ , D 2 Σ · · · ). To clarify our discussion we will study two explicit cases where Ω does contain superspace higher derivatives. The superspace higher derivatives we introduce here, have the property to give rise to kinetic terms for the auxiliary fields in the component form. We will see that this is related to Ξ being dynamical.
First we introduce the model which we saw that gives rise to the kinetic terms for the auxiliary fermion in the broken vacuum. We have We can also look at an example with a complex linear superfield but with no supersymmetry breaking (2.83) The bosonic sector of this theory contains 4 real additional propagating bosonic modes (F and ∂ αα P αα ) which form an on-shell supermultiplet with the auxiliary spinors χ α and λ α , which also become propagating and together form a massive Dirac spinor. There are no ghosts for α > 0 which we will assume henceforth. If we start the duality procedure we have Taking a small α, and inverting around Ξ = 0 one would find that Ξ should vanish, which clearly does not represent all the propagating degrees of freedom. In fact (2.87) is a dynamical equation which describes two massive chiral superfields and therefore Ξ can not be integrated out, and the Lagrangian description of the theory is precisely (2.86). To explain the origin of the propagating chiral superfields, we can rewrite the model as where T is a chiral Lagrange multiplier. After we integrate out Ξ (which now has equations Ξ = −T ) and rescale S with √ α, the Lagrangian (2.88) becomes We see that the new modes have mass 1/ √ α, therefore if we had performed the inversion for small α we would be effectively decoupling them.
A similar situation appears in the supergravity theory. The duality between the newminimal and the old-minimal formulations can be understood as a duality [53] between the chiral and the real linear compensator which when gauge fixed, break the superconformal theory to superPoincare [54]. The supergravity-matter theories with no curvature higher derivatives can be in principle dualized to each other, but the chiral-linear duality does not offer a complete description when higher curvature terms are present [16]. In that case the compensator equations seize to be algebraic and it may not be integrated out in order to lead the dual theory. In these cases the equivalent theory contains the gravitational sector but also additional propagating sectors appear. In the component form, one can see this by the fact that in higher curvature supergravity some of the auxiliary fields become propagating [16][17][18].

Supercurrents and low energy limits
In this section we study models of non-minimal superfields, calculate their supercurrent when they include superspace higher derivatives, and study the IR limits. For the supersymmetry breaking vacua we give low energy descriptions.

JHEP09(2015)177
where the supercurrent J αα is a real superfield, and the superfields Y α and X α satisfȳ The superfields which enter the right hand side of the supercurrent equation (3.1), have IR properties related to supersymmetry breaking. From the identities for Y α we see that locally it can always be written as It was pointed out in [24] that when supersymmetry is broken, one will find (on-shell) for the low energy We will show now that this property holds also for the models of complex linear and CNM multiplets which break supersymmetry with superspace higher derivatives.

Supercurrents from the Noether procedure
First we have to identify the supercurrents, which is done by turning to the Noether procedure [21,55,58]. A superdiffeomorphism of a superfield S is given by the transformation If the superfield S is a complex linear (D 2 S = 0), this property has to be preserved by the superdiffeomophism which therefore leads to the restrictions which are solved by ∆α =DβLβα with L α and Lβα both complex and unconstrained. It is straightforward to check that this choice of parameters is also compatible with S being chiral (DαS = 0) and also with the CNM multiplet. An infinitesimal transformation for the complex linear is The superspace Noether procedure [21,55,58] then directly gives conserved complex currents since J αα is not necessarily real.
We may now use improvement terms to bring J αα , X α and Y α to the desired form (3.1). This can be done by using shifts which change the form of the supercurrent J αα , at the same time as they also change X α and Y α . These shifts can be found in table 1 Furthermore, since in the variation of the action, J αα is multiplied withDαL α , we can interchange a term in J αα of the formDαXβ αβ with −2DβXβ αα .
We now proceed as follows. We start with a complex current J αα and X α = Y α = 0. We use all possible shifts and rewritings to make the current real. This produces nonzero X α and Y α , however, X α might not fulfil (3.3). To try to improve this, we may only perform shifts that respect the reality of J αα . Those are given by type A shifts with a real U and type B shifts with an imaginary U . Finally we are left with a system satisfying all the requirements. We may still perform shifts of type A with a real U to change the system into the FZ-multiplet (X α = 0) or to the R-multiplet (Y α = 0). In the next part of this section we will use the above methods to find the appropriate form of the supercurrents for the various cases, identify X, and study its IR flow.

JHEP09(2015)177
Shifts Type A Type B Type C Type D

IR limits of supersymmetry breaking vacua
For the model of the complex linear of [14] (withD 2 Σ = 0) the Noether procedure gives and the equations of motion are Note that Z also satisfiesD 2 Z = 0. (3.24) It is easy to check that on-shellDαJ αα = 0 and also see that the J αα current is not real.
To make the current real we use a combination of shift from table 1 to shift J αα with (3.26) If we also define

JHEP09(2015)177
we can write the resulting system as Now J αα has become real and X α satisfies (3.3). Notice that in (3.30) after the shift (3.25) the last term will appear like +ZΣ, but by using the equations of motion this term will vanish due to the fact thatD 2 acts on it, therefore one may flip the sign to bring it in the form of (3.30) as we have done here, such that everything inside (3.30) is real. We are still allowed to add improvement terms to bring the supercurrent equation to the desired form either of the FZ-multiplet or the R-multiplet. But to keep the reality properties of J αα and the properties (3.3) of X α , we can only use the type A shift with a real U . To find the R-multiplet we perform a type A shift with which gives a real J αα and which together with the new supercurrent satisfȳ The fact that we can bring the supercurrent conservation equation in this form shows that this model can be coupled to the new-minimal supergravity consistently. Now we turn to the FZ-multiplet. By performing a type A shift with we get a system with a real J αα and The new supercurrent and X satisfyDα which shows that this model can be also coupled to the old-minimal supergravity.

JHEP09(2015)177
Now we want to study the IR limit of X for the supersymmetry breaking vacuum. We have found that Σ = X N L +Φ, therefore we insert this in the expression for X (3.36) to find which gives We see that X for the supersymmetry breaking vacuum is proportional to X N L , and this will also hold in the IR. Therefore we confirm that X flow to X N L in the IR as was advocated in [24]. For the CNM Lagrangian (2.6) we find from the Noether procedure and the equations of motion arē The only difference from the massless complex linear model is the presence of the chiral superfield Φ inside the supercurrent. To bring J αα to the desired form we shift with which is a combination of the various types of shifts shown in table 1. After this we find where T , T α andTα are defined in (3.27). To be able to bring the current in the FZmultiplet form or the R-multiplet form we have to make one more shift. First notice that Now we are ready to perform appropriate shifts of type A with real U to bring the current to the desired form.
To find the FZ-multiplet we perform a type A shift with which gives a real J αα with It is clear that since we can bring the supercurrent conservation equation to this form the model can be consistently coupled to the old-minimal supergravity. One may perform an appropriate shift and bring the system to the supercurrent conservation related to the new-minimal supergravity. To achieve this we perform a type A shift with which gives X α =D 2 D α −ΣΣ + ZΣ +ZΣ + ΦΦ (3.54) and Now we can go to the IR limit for the FZ-multiplet. For the supersymmetry breaking vacuum, in the IR (and on-shell) as we explained and Then we have after a short calculation We see again that X in the low energy flows to X N L [24].

JHEP09(2015)177 4 Goldstino description
In this section we focus on the supersymmetry breaking vacua, and give the low energy description of the complex linear Goldstino superfield in terms of the Samuel-Wess superfield Λ α [30]. For the CNM multiplet (2.1) with Lagrangian (2.6), we have shown that in the IR the massive sector will decouple, and leave only the Goldstino sector behind. For the complex linear, we have seen that one can employ mediation terms which will generically give non-supersymmetric masses to all the other modes except the Goldstino mode, therefore again in the IR there will be only the Goldstino. In other words for the complex linear model we employ both (2.39) and (2.52). Therefore, our models can be treated under a common framework in the IR, which is of course the concept of an effective low energy description; the UV properties of the theory are not important any more. The Λ-superfield [30] satisfies the conditions and κ is related to the supersymmetry breaking scale (κ here is assumed to be real without loss of generality). The minimal superspace Lagrangian for the Λ-superfield, has the form Before we turn to the complex linear Goldstino, let us review the chiral superfield Goldstino description. In this case the supersymmetry breaking Lagrangian is and the appropriate embedding of the Goldstino into the chiral superfield is for f = −4κ −3 . If we insert (4.7) into (4.6) we will find it is proportional to (4.5), with the correct sign. It is also interesting to look at the modified complex linear superfield given in [13] which is dual to the chiral model given in (4.6). The model is described by a superfield Γ satisfying the modified complex linear constraint In [13] it was shown that for this model the Goldstino can be embedded into the modified complex linear superfield as

JHEP09(2015)177
for f 2 = 1 2κ 2 . Inserting the ansatz (4.9) into the action gives the kinetic term of the Goldstino with the correct sign. Since in this case we can writē we see that it is the physical fermion that becomes the Goldstino as one may expect from the duality with the chiral model. Because of the very simple relation between Γ andΛα in this model, one may invert equation (4.9) to express the Samuel-Wess superfield in terms of Γ. Therefore it is possible to use Γ as an alternative to Λ α when one wants to describe superfield embeddings of the Goldstino in any model. 2 As we have seen in our case, at low energy, the only sector of the CNM and the complex linear models which does not decouple in the broken vacuum is the Goldstino modes inside Σ. We propose that the appropriate IR description for Σ in the broken vacuum is where Λ α is the Samuel-Wess Goldstino superfield [30]. Let us explain why (4.11) is the correct description in terms of Λ. First we can see that Secondly, the Goldstino does not reside in the componentDαΣ Λ | (the physical fermion), but rather in which is the previously auxiliary fermion λ α . Moreover, we have which also gives the relation to the supersymmetry breaking scale. In addition, notice that Finally, we can study the free Lagrangian for the complex linear superfield and replace Σ with the Goldstino superfield Σ Λ . We have with the right hand side being the standard Lagrangian for the Goldstino in the Λ-superfield formulation [30]. One might ask whether we could have Σ equal toD 2 (Λ 2Λ2 ) in the IR. From the result in (4.16), one can understand that this would not be appropriate to describe a complex linear Goldstino superfield, since this would lead to a Lagrangian for the Λ-superfield with the wrong sign.

JHEP09(2015)177
We now want to revisit the Lagrangian for which we know there exists supersymmetry breaking vacua. As we explained, this Lagrangian is the low energy description in the broken vacuum for both the CNM and the complex linear models. For this model the Goldstino multiplet in the broken vacuum is described by Σ = Σ Λ with f = −4κ −3 . therefore we find the same vacuum energy as for the models (2.6) and (2.33). Now we want to find the superspace equations of motion for the Goldstino superfield Λ α . We may insert the complex linear Goldstino (4.11) in the equations of motion that arise from Lagrangian (4.17). The equations for Σ Λ will be A manipulation of the right hand side of (4.22) using the properties of the Λ-superfield revealsDα which shows that the equations for Σ in fact predict that on-shell Equation (4.24) is exactly the equation we had to assume such that we could solve the superspace equations of motion earlier (see for example (2.23)). Of course (4.22) is not satisfied by using only the Λ-superfield properties, but it gives a restriction on Λ ᾱ Dα Λ 2Λ2 ∂ α α Λ α = 0 (4.25)

JHEP09(2015)177
which can be also written as − 4i κ 2 Λ β Λ βΛβ ∂ γβ Λ γ + Λ β Λ βΛβΛβ ∂ γρ ∂ γρ (Λ ρ Λ ρ ) = 0 (4. 26) and represents the superspace equations of motion for the Λ-superfield. The lowest component of the superspace equation (4.26) can be shown to be compatible with the equations of the Goldstino fermion (the lowest component of Λ α ). Indeed, we may expand the Lagrangian (4.5) in components and perform a variation with respect toΛβ| =Ḡβ. After we multiply with G 2Ḡβ we have and we compare with (4.26) to see that they are identical. This verifies that (4.25) is the Λ-superfield equations of motion. Finally, from equation (2.25), which as we said also gives equations of motion for the Goldstino, we get where we have replaced X N L with Φ Λ and multiplied withΦ Λ D α Φ Λ . Formula (4.28) is not trivially satisfied just from the properties of Φ Λ , but rather it yields an additional equation for Λ. Expanding (4.28) in Λ gives Λ 2Λ2 ∂ α α Λ α = 0 (4.29) which again implies (4.25).

Conclusions
In this work we have studied the properties of non-minimal multiplets as candidates for the hidden sector of supersymmetry breaking. We have explored the properties of two key models: the CNM multiplet and the complex linear multiplet with mediation terms. We have employed superspace higher derivatives, such that the auxiliary field potential is deformed and the system has acquires new supersymmetry breaking vacuum solutions. In these vacua, naively auxiliary fermionic fields become propagating and in particular they become the fermionic Goldstone modes. We have revisited the duality between nonminimal theories and chiral models and shown that the conventional duality procedure can not always capture the full dynamics of the theory, especially when auxiliary fields have become propagating -as happens here. Moreover, we have followed the Noether procedure for superdiffeomorphisms and we have identified the chiral X superfield which enters the supercurrent equations. For both models we have shown that in the IR it becomes the chiral Goldstino superfield X N L . Finally, we have given a description for the Goldstino in terms of the Samuel-Wess Λ-superfield, which works both for the CNM and the complex linear model and therefore offers a universal description, and we have identified the superspace equations of motion.