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Supersymmetric Effects in Deep Inelastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering
We compute the supersymmetric (SUSY) contributions to neutrino
(antineutrino)-nucleus deep inelastic scattering in the Minimal Supersymmetric
Standard Model (MSSM). We consider the ratio of neutral current to charged
current cross sections, and , and compare with the
deviations of these quantities from the Standard Model predictions implied by
the recent NuTeV measurement. After performing a model-independent analysis, we
find that SUSY loop corrections generally have the opposite sign from the NuTeV
anomaly. We discuss one scenario in which a right-sign effect arises, and show
that it is ruled out by other precision data. We also study for R
parity-violating (RPV) contributions. Although RPV effects could, in principle,
reproduce the NuTeV anomaly, such a possibility is also ruled out by other
precision electroweak measurements.Comment: 30 pages, 13 figure