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AUTHOR
Graham G. Ross
Spontaneous CP violation and Non-Abelian Family Symmetry in SUSY
We analyse the properties of generic models based on an SU(3) family symmetry providing a full description of quark charged lepton and neutrino masses and mixing angles. We show that a precise fit of the resulting fermion textures is consistent with CP being spontaneously broken in the flavour sector. The CP violating phases are determined by the scalar potential and we discuss how symmetries readily lead to a maximal phase controlling CP violation in the quark sector. In a specific model the CP violation to be expected in the neutrino sector is related to that in the quark sector and we determine this relation for two viable models. In addition to giving rise to the observed structure of q…
Phenomenology of supersymmetry with broken R-parity
Abstract In some phenomenological supersymmetric models R -parity (+1 for particles, −1 for sparticles) is spontaneously broken along with tau-lepton number L τ by a vacuum expectation value υ τ of the tau sneutrino ν τ . To avoid excess stellar energy loss through majorons, there should also be explicit L τ violation through right-handed neutrinos. To have a sufficiently light ν τ , either υ τ is very small which is unnatural and boring, and/or the Higgs mixing parameter ϵ is very small. We find that in the limit ϵ → 0: -both the forward-backward asymmetry in e + e − → τ + τ − and the τ lifetime are unchanged, -Z 0 → ggν⊥ decays are possible where ν τ is an extra neutrino, -squarks and glu…
BARYOGENESIS IN SUPERGRAVITY INFLATIONARY MODELS
Abstract Realistic N=1 supergravity theories with a gravitino mass of order 1 TeV require a period of inflation to dilute the gravitino abundance. Moreover, if the gravitino is unstable the reheat temperature is bounded to be no greater than O(108 GeV). We show that such models may still have acceptable rates of baryosynthesis and discuss possible mechanisms.