  If a global continuous symmetry of a supersymmetric field theory is
spontaneously broken while preserving the supersymmetry, the resulting theory
has a massless superfield. One of its two bosonic degrees of freedom is the
familiar phase rotation of the usual massless Nambu-Goldstone boson, but the
other is a scale transformation. An indeterminate mass scale is thus generated.
In the fermion sector, a seesaw texture appears which may be suitable for a
possible light sterile neutrino. This feature persists even after the gauging
of the continuous symmetry or the breaking of the supersymmetry to resolve the
aforementioned mass-scale ambiguity.
