76 research outputs found
Signals of Unconventional E Models at Colliders
Generation dependent discrete symmetries often appear in models derived from
superstring theories. In particular, in the framework of E models the
presence of such symmetries is required in order to allow for the radiative
generation of naturally small neutrino masses. Recently it was shown that by
imposing suitable generation dependent discrete symmetries, a class of models
can be consistently constructed in which the three sets of known fermions in
each generation do not have the same assignments with respect to the {\bf 27}
representation of E. In this scenario, the different embedding in the gauge
group of the three generations implies in particular that the known charged
leptons couple in a non--universal way to the new neutral gauge bosons
present in these models. We exploit this fact to study the
signature of this class of models at present and future colliders. We
show that some signals of deviation from lepton universality as well as some
other discrepancies with the standard model predictions which have been
observed at the TRISTAN collider in the production rate of and ,
can be accounted for if the mass is not much heavier than 300 GeV. We
also study the discovery limits for lepton universality violation of this type
at LEP-2 and at the 500 GeV Next Linear Collider (NLC). We show that
models predicting unconventional assignments for the leptons will give an
unmistakable signature, when the mass is as heavy as GeV
(LEP-2) and TeV (NLC).Comment: Plain Tex, 20 pages. 4 PostScript figures (uses `epsf.tex'). Modified
file-format. No changes in the tex
Disrupting the one-loop renormalization group invariant M/alpha in supersymmetry
It is well known that in low energy supersymmetry the ratio of the gaugino
mass to the gauge coupling squared, M/alpha, is renormalization group invariant
to one-loop. We present a systematic analysis of the corrections to this ratio,
including standard two-loop corrections from gauge and Yukawa couplings,
corrections due to an additional U(1)' gaugino, threshold corrections,
superoblique corrections, corrections due to extra matter, GUT and Planck scale
corrections, and ``corrections'' from messenger sectors with supersymmetry
breaking communicated via gauge-mediation. We show that many of these effects
induce corrections at the level of a few to tens of percent, but some could
give much larger corrections, drastically disrupting the renormalization group
extrapolation of the ratio to higher scales. Our analysis is essentially
model-independent, and therefore can be used to determine the ambiguities in
extrapolating the ratio in any given model between the weak scale and higher
scales.Comment: 43 pages, LaTeX, uses epsf.sty, axodraw.sty, 12 eps figures. Minor
typos corrected. To appear in Nucl. Phys.
Flavor changing t -> c l_1^- l_2^+ decay in the general two Higgs doublet model
We study the flavor changing t-> c l_1^- l_2^+ decay in the framework of the
general two Higgs doublet model, the so called model III. We predict the
branching ratio for l_1=\tau, l_2=\mu at the order of magnitude of BR \sim
10^{-8}.Comment: 12 Pages, 5 Figure
Experimental aspects of SU(5)xU(1) supergravity
We study various aspects of supergravity as they relate to
the experimental verification or falsification of this model. We consider two
string-inspired, universal, one-parameter, no-scale soft-supersymmetry-breaking
scenarios, driven by the -terms of the moduli and dilaton fields. The model
is described in terms of the supersymmetry mass scale (\ie, the chargino mass
), , and the top-quark mass. We first determine the
combined effect on the parameter space of all presently available direct and
indirect experimental constraints, including the LEP lower bounds on sparticle
and Higgs-boson masses, the rate, the anomalous magnetic moment
of the muon, the high-precision electroweak parameters
(which imply m_t\lsim180\GeV), and the muon fluxes in underground detectors
(neutrino telescopes). For the still-allowed points in
parameter space, we re-evaluate the experimental
situation at the Tevatron, LEPII, and HERA. In the 1994 run, the Tevatron could
probe chargino masses as high as 100 GeV. At LEPII the parameter space could be
explored with probes of different resolutions: Higgs boson searches, selectron
searches, and chargino searches. Moreover, for m_t\lsim150\GeV, these
Higgs-boson searches could explore all of the allowed parameter space with
\sqrt{s}\lsim210\GeV.Comment: latex, 36 pages, 25 figures (not included). Figures are available via
anonymous ftp from hplaa02.cern.ch (/pub/lopez) as either 33 ps files
(Easpects*.ps, 8.1MB) or one uuencoded file (AllFigures.uu, 3.7MB
"Large in SU(5)xU(1) supergravity models"
We compute the supersymmetric contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment
of the muon within the context of supergravity models. The
largest possible contributions to occur for the largest allowed
values of and can easily exceed the present experimentally allowed
range, even after the LEP lower bounds on the sparticle masses are imposed.
Such enhancement implies that can greatly exceed
both the electroweak contribution () and the present
hadronic uncertainty (). Therefore, the new E821
Brookhaven experiment (with an expected accuracy of ) should
explore a large fraction (if not all) of the parameter space of these models,
corresponding to slepton, chargino, and squarks masses as high as 200, 300, and
1000 GeV respectively. Moreover, contrary to popular belief, the
contribution can have either sign, depending on the sign of the Higgs mixing
parameter : (). The present
constraint excludes chargino masses in the range 45-120\GeV depending
on the value of , although there are no constraints for
\tan\beta\lsim8. We also compute and find
|a^{susy}_\tau|\approx(m_\tau/m_\mu)^2\,|a^{susy}_\mu|\lsim10^{-5} and
briefly comment on its possible observability.Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures (not included), Latex. Figures available from
[email protected] as ps files (total 0.985MB) or uuencoded file (0.463MB).
CERN-TH.6986/93, CTP-TAMU-44/9
Unconventional superstring derived E models and neutrino phenomenology
Conventional superstring derived E models can accommodate small neutrino
masses if a discrete symmetry is imposed which forbids tree level Dirac
neutrino masses but allows for radiative mass generation. Since the only
possible symmetries of this kind are known to be generation dependent, we
explore the possibility that the three sets of light states in each generation
do not have the same assignments with respect to the 27 of , leading to
non universal gauge interactions under the additional factors for the
known fermions. We argue that models realising such a scenario are viable, with
their structure being constrained mainly by the requirement of the absence of
flavor changing neutral currents in the Higgs sector. Moreover, in contrast to
the standard case, rank 6 models are not disfavoured with respect to rank 5. By
requiring the number of light neutral states to be minimal, these models have
an almost unique pattern of neutrino masses and mixings. We construct a model
based on the unconventional assignment scenario in which (with a natural choice
of the parameters) m_{\nut}\sim O(10)eV is generated at one loop, m_{\num}
is generated at two loops and lies in a range interesting for the solar
neutrino problem, and \nue remains massless. In addition, since baryon and
lepton number are conserved, there is no proton decay in the model. To
illustrate the non-standard phenomenology implied by our scheme we also discuss
a second scenario in which an attempt for solving the solar neutrino puzzle
with matter enhanced oscillations and practically massless neutrinos can be
formulated, and in which peculiar effects for the \num --> \nut conversion
of the upward-going atmospheric neutrinos could arise as well.Comment: Plain Tex, 33 pages, 3 PostScript figures (uses epsf.tex). Modified
file-format. No changes in the tex
Supersymmetric effects in top quark decay into polarized W-boson
We investigate the one-loop supersymmetric QCD (SUSY-QCD) and electroweak
(SUSY-EW) corrections to the top quark decay into a b-quark and a longitudinal
or transverse W-boson. The corrections are presented in terms of the
longitudinal ratio \Gamma(t-->W_L b)/\Gamma(t--> W b) and the transverse ratio
\Gamma(t-->W_- b)/\Gamma(t--> W b). In most of the parameter space, both
SUSY-QCD and SUSY-EW corrections to these ratios are found to be less than 1%
in magnitude and they tend to have opposite signs. The corrections to the total
width \Gamma(t-->W b) are also presented for comparison with the existing
results in the literature. We find that our SUSY-EW corrections to the total
width differ significantly from previous studies: the previous studies give a
large correction of more than 10% in magnitude for a large part of the
parameter space while our results reach only few percent at most.Comment: Version in PRD (explanation and refs added
An E interpretation of an event
The lowest-dimensional representation of the group E contains both the
standard quarks and leptons and a set of exotic quarks and leptons whose decays
can involve a series of chains ending in radiative decay of one light neutrino
species to another. An example is given based on the decomposition E
SU(2) SU(6), where SU(2) is an ``inert'' subgroup whose gauge
bosons and are all electromagnetically neutral, while SU(6)
contains the conventional SU(5) grand-unified group. The possibility is
explored that such a chain is responsible for an event observed by the Collider
Detector at Fermilab (CDF) involving the production in proton-antiproton
collisions at TeV of an electron-positron pair, two
photons, and missing energy ().Comment: 14 pages, latex, no figures. Revised version submitted to PR
Probing Topcolor-Assisted Technicolor from Top-Charm Associated Production at LHC
We propose to probe the topcolor-assisted technicolor (TC2) model from the
top-charm associated productions at the LHC, which are highly suppressed in the
Standard Model. Due to the flavor-changing couplings of the top quark with the
scalars (top-pions and top-Higgs) in TC2 model, the top-charm associated
productions can occur via both the s-channel and t-channel parton processes by
exchanging a scalar field at the LHC. We examined these processes through Monte
Carlo simulation and found that they can reach the observable level at the LHC
in quite a large part of the parameter space of the TC2 model.Comment: Version to appear in PRD (Rapid Communication
Top-Charm Associated Production in High Energy Collisions
The possibility of exploring the flavor changing neutral current
couplings in the production vertex for the reaction \epem\to
t\bar c + \bar tc is examined. Using a model independent parameterization for
the effective Lagrangian to describe the most general three-point interactions,
production cross sections are found to be relatively small at LEP II, but
potentially sizeable at higher energy \epem colliders. The kinematic
characteristics of the signal are studied and a set of cuts are devised for
clean separation of the signal from background. The resulting sensitivity to
anomalous flavor changing couplings at LEP II with an integrated luminosity of
pb is found to be comparable to their present indirect
constraints from loop processes, while at higher energy colliders with
TeV center-of-mass energy and 50-200 fb luminosity, one expects to reach
a sensitivity at or below the percentage level.Comment: Latex, 22 page
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