Soft Supersymmetry Breaking Induced by Higher-Derivative   Supergravitation in the Electroweak Standard Model
  We show how spontaneous supersymmetry breaking in the vacuum state of higher-derivative supergravity is transmitted, as explicit soft supersymmetry-breaking terms, to the effective Lagrangian of the standard electroweak model. The general structure of the soft supersymmetry breaking terms is presented and a new scenario for understanding the gauge hierarchy problem, based on the functional form of these terms, is discussed. 
Ahmed Hindawi, Burt A. Ovrut, Daniel Waldram