39 research outputs found
Towards constraints on the SUSY seesaw from flavour-dependent leptogenesis
We systematically investigate constraints on the parameters of the
supersymmetric type-I seesaw mechanism from the requirement of successful
thermal leptogenesis in the presence of upper bounds on the reheat temperature
of the early Universe. To this end, we solve the
flavour-dependent Boltzmann equations in the MSSM, extended to include
reheating. With conservative bounds on , leading to mildly
constrained scenarios for thermal leptogenesis, compatibility with observation
can be obtained for extensive new regions of the parameter space, due to
flavour-dependent effects. On the other hand, focusing on (normal) hierarchical
light and heavy neutrinos, the hypothesis that there is no CP violation
associated with the right-handed neutrino sector, and that leptogenesis
exclusively arises from the CP-violating phases of the matrix,
is only marginally consistent. Taking into account stricter bounds on
further suggests that (additional) sources of CP violation must
arise from the right-handed neutrino sector, further implying stronger
constraints for the right-handed neutrino parameters.Comment: 42 pages, 12 figures; final version published in JCAP; numerical
results for the efficiency factor can be downloaded from
http://www.newphysics.eu/leptogenesis
On Quantum Effects in Soft Leptogenesis
It has been recently shown that quantum Boltzman equations may be relevant
for leptogenesis. Quantum effects, which lead to a time-dependent CP asymmetry,
have been shown to be particularly important for resonant leptogenesis when the
asymmetry is generated by the decay of two nearly degenerate states. In this
work we investigate the impact of the use of quantum Boltzman equations in the
framework ``soft leptogenesis'' in which supersymmetry soft-breaking terms give
a small mass splitting between the CP-even and CP-odd right-handed sneutrino
states of a single generation and provide the CP-violating phase to generate
the lepton asymmetry.Comment: 15 pages, 4 figures. Replacement to match published versio
conversion in nuclei within the CMSSM seesaw: universality versus non-universality
In this paper we study conversion in nuclei within the context of the
Constrained Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, enlarged by three right
handed neutrinos and their supersymmetric partners, and where the neutrino
masses are generated via a seesaw mechanism. Two different scenarios with
either universal or non-universal soft supersymmetry breaking Higgs masses at
the gauge coupling unification scale are considered. In the first part we
present a complete one-loop computation of the conversion rate for this process
that includes the photon-, -boson, and Higgs-boson penguins, as well as box
diagrams, and compare their size in the two considered scenarios. Then, in
these two scenarios we analyse the relevance of the various parameters on the
conversion rates, particularly emphasising the role played by the heavy
neutrino masses, , and especially . In the case of
hierachical heavy neutrinos, an extremely high sensitivity of the rates to
is indeed found. The last part of this work is devoted to the
study of the interesting loss of correlation between the conversion and
rates that occurs in the non-universal scenario. In the case
of large and light Higgs boson an enhanced ratio of the
to rates, with respect to the universal case is
found, and this could be tested with the future experimental sensitivities.Comment: 48 pages, 15 figures. Minor typos corrected and some references adde
Interplay of LFV and slepton mass splittings at the LHC as a probe of the SUSY seesaw
We study the impact of a type-I SUSY seesaw concerning lepton flavour
violation (LFV) both at low-energies and at the LHC. The study of the di-lepton
invariant mass distribution at the LHC allows to reconstruct some of the masses
of the different sparticles involved in a decay chain. In particular, the
combination with other observables renders feasible the reconstruction of the
masses of the intermediate sleptons involved in decays. Slepton mass splittings can be either
interpreted as a signal of non-universality in the SUSY soft breaking-terms
(signalling a deviation from constrained scenarios as the cMSSM) or as being
due to the violation of lepton flavour. In the latter case, in addition to
these high-energy processes, one expects further low-energy manifestations of
LFV such as radiative and three-body lepton decays. Under the assumption of a
type-I seesaw as the source of neutrino masses and mixings, all these LFV
observables are related. Working in the framework of the cMSSM extended by
three right-handed neutrino superfields, we conduct a systematic analysis
addressing the simultaneous implications of the SUSY seesaw for both high- and
low-energy lepton flavour violation. We discuss how the confrontation of
slepton mass splittings as observed at the LHC and low-energy LFV observables
may provide important information about the underlying mechanism of LFV.Comment: 50 pages, 42 eps Figures, typos correcte
Effect of steriles states on lepton magnetic moments and neutrinoless double beta decay
HE-LHC: The High-Energy Large Hadron Collider – Future Circular Collider Conceptual Design Report Volume 4
In response to the 2013 Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics (EPPSU), the Future Circular Collider (FCC) study was launched as a world-wide international collaboration hosted by CERN. The FCC study covered an energy-frontier hadron collider (FCC-hh), a highest-luminosity high-energy lepton collider (FCC-ee), the corresponding 100 km tunnel infrastructure, as well as the physics opportunities of these two colliders, and a high-energy LHC, based on FCC-hh technology. This document constitutes the third volume of the FCC Conceptual Design Report, devoted to the hadron collider FCC-hh. It summarizes the FCC-hh physics discovery opportunities, presents the FCC-hh accelerator design, performance reach, and staged operation plan, discusses the underlying technologies, the civil engineering and technical infrastructure, and also sketches a possible implementation. Combining ingredients from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the high-luminosity LHC upgrade and adding novel technologies and approaches, the FCC-hh design aims at significantly extending the energy frontier to 100 TeV. Its unprecedented centre-of-mass collision energy will make the FCC-hh a unique instrument to explore physics beyond the Standard Model, offering great direct sensitivity to new physics and discoveries