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Production and decays of supersymmetric Higgs bosons in spontaneously brokenRparity
2005
We study the mass spectra, production and decay properties of the lightest supersymmetric CP-even and CP-odd Higgs bosons in models with spontaneously broken R-parity (SBRP). We compare the resulting mass spectra with expectations of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM), stressing that the model obeys the upper bound on the lightest CP-even Higgs boson mass. We discuss how the presence of the additional scalar singlet states affects the Higgs production cross sections, both for the Bjorken process and the "associated production". The main phenomenological novelty with respect to the MSSM comes from the fact that the spontaneous breaking of lepton number leads to the existence of…
One-loop effective lagrangian for an extension of the standard model with a heavy charged scalar singlet
1994
We study several problems related to the construction and the use of effective Lagrangians by considering an extension of the standard model that includes a heavy scalar singlet coupled to the leptonic doublet. Starting from the full renormalizable model, we build an effective field theory by integrating out the heavy scalar. A local effective Lagrangian (up to operators of dimension six) is obtained by expanding the one-loop effective action in inverse powers of the heavy mass. This is done by matching some Green functions calculated with both the full and the effective theories. Using this simple example we study the renormalization of effective Lagrangians in general and discuss how they…
Two-Body Decays of the Lightest Stop in Supergravity with and without R-Parity
1999
We study the decays of the lightest top squark in supergravity models with and without R-parity. Using the simplest model with an effective explicit bilinear breaking of R-parity and radiative electroweak symmetry breaking we show that, below the threshold for decays into charginos $\tilde t_1\to c\chi^+_1$, the lightest stop decays mainly into third generation fermions, $\tilde t_1\to b\tau$ instead of the R-parity conserving mode $\tilde t_1\to c\chi^0_1$, even for tiny tau--neutrino mass values. Moreover we show that, even above the threshold for decays into charginos, the decay $\tilde t_1\to b\tau$ may be dominant. We study the role played by the universality of the boundary conditions…
Minimal supergravity radiative effects on the tri-bimaximal neutrino mixing pattern
2007
7 pages, 3 figures.-- PACS nrs.: 14.60.Pq, 12.60.Jv.-- ISI Article Identifier: 000245333000012.-- ArXiv pre-print available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0606082
Supersymmetric Unification with Radiative Breaking of R-parity
1996
We show how R-parity can break spontaneously as a result of radiative corrections in unified N=1 supergravity models. We illustrate this with a concrete rank-four unified model, where the spontaneous breaking of R-parity is accompanied by the existence of a physical majoron. We determine the resulting supersymmetric particle mass spectrum and show that R-parity-breaking signals may be detectable at LEP200.
Unification of gauge couplings and the tau-neutrino mass in supergravity without R parity
1999
Minimal R-parity violating supergravity predicts a value for $alpha_s(M_Z)$ smaller than in the case with conserved R-parity, and therefore closer to the experimental world average. We show that the R-parity violating effect on the $alpha_s$ prediction comes from the larger two-loop b-quark Yukawa contribution to the renormalization group evolution of the gauge couplings which characterizes R-parity violating supergravity. The effect is correlated to the tau neutrino mass and is sensitive to the initial conditions on the soft supersymmetry breaking parameters at the unification scale. We show how a few percent effect on $alpha_s(M_Z)$ may naturally occur even with tau neutrino masses as sma…
ON THE STABILITY OF SUPERSYMMETRY IN CURVED SPACE-TIME
1990
We discuss the stability of the classical supergravity background in a simple supersymmetric model at the quantum level, showing that two different pictures emerge depending on whether the emphasis is placed on the conformal invariance or on the supersymmetry invariance of the theory.
Supersymmetry in the standard model of electroweak interactions
1993
Abstract Starting from the peculiar chirality pattern of weak and electromagnetic interactions, established by experiment, we show that the minimal standard model contains supersymmetry, though in a new, unconventional, realization. It appears as an action on the fields but is not an invariance of the lagrangian. This supersymmetry which is not in conflict with experiment, is seen to be the raison d'etre of the Higgs fields and provides a geometrical understanding of spontaneous symmetry breaking. It turns out that this approach which is based on the fundamental role of left- and right-chiral spinor fields in weak interactions, has many similarities to models developed in the framework of n…
Isospin-breaking corrections to superallowed Fermi beta-decay in isospin- and angular momentum-projected nuclear Density Functional Theory
2012
Background: The superallowed beta-decay rates provide stringent constraints on physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. To extract crucial information about the electroweak force, small isospin-breaking corrections to the Fermi matrix element of superallowed transitions must be applied. Purpose: We perform systematic calculations of isospin-breaking corrections to superallowed beta-decays and estimate theoretical uncertainties related to the basis truncation, time-odd polarization effects related to the intrinsic symmetry of the underlying Slater determinants, and to the functional parametrization. Methods: We use the self-consistent isospin- and angular-momentum-projected nuc…
Isospin dependence of the three-nucleon force
2004
We classify $A$--nucleon forces according to their isospin dependence and discuss the most general isospin structure of the three--nucleon force. We derive the leading and subleading isospin--breaking corrections to the three--nucleon force using the framework of chiral effective field theory.