Dilaton stabilization in the context of dynamical supersymmetry breaking through gaugino condensation Original Research Article

We study gaugino condensation in the context of superstring effective theories using the linear multiplet formulation for the dilaton superfield. Including non-perturbative corrections to the Kähler potential for the dilaton may naturally achieve dilaton stabilization, with supersymmetry breaking and gaugino condensation; these three issues are interrelated in a very simple way. In a toy model with a single static condensate, a dilaton vev is found within a phenomenologically interesting range. The effective theory differs significantly from condensate models studied previously in the chiral formulation.