R Parity Violating Decays of the Gluino

Assuming the lightest supersymmetric particle is the gluino, we treat the decays gluino->quark-antiquark-neutrino and gluino->gluon-neutrino. Such couplings can be induced by the R parity violating quark-squark-lepton interaction which can also be responsible for neutrino masses and mixings. These R parity violating gluino decays have the same final state structure (jets plus missing energy) as previously considered decays into quark-antiquark-photino and gluon-gravitino but with significantly different gluino lifetimes.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, published version plus new referenc

General Flavor Blind MSSM and CP Violation

We study the implications on flavor changing neutral current and CP violating processes in the context of supersymmetric theories without a new flavor structure (flavor blind supersymmetry). The low energy parameters are determined by the running of the soft breaking terms from the grand unified scale with SUSY phases consistent with the EDM constraints. We find that the CP asymmetry in b --> s gamma can reach large values potentially measurable at B factories, especially in the low BR(b --> s gamma) region. We perform a fit of the unitarity triangle including all the relevant observables. In this case, no sizeable deviations from the SM expectations are found. Finally we analyze the SUSY contributions to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon pointing out its impact on the b --> s gamma CP asymmetry and on the SUSY spectrum including chargino and stop masses.Comment: 40 pages, 8 figures, typos corrected, references adde

General Flavour Blind MSSM and CP Violation

We study FCNC and CP violating processes in the MSSM without a new flavour structure (flavour blind MSSM). The low energy parameters are determined by the running of the soft breaking terms from the GUT scale with SUSY phases consistent with the EDM constraints. We find that the CP asymmetry in b -> s gamma can reach large values potentially measurable at B factories, especially in the low BR(b -> s gamma) region. We analyze the SUSY contributions to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon pointing out its impact on the b -> s gamma CP asymmetry and on the SUSY spectrum.Comment: LaTex, 5 pages, 2 figures, Contribution to the International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics (HEP 2001), Budapest, Hungary, 12-18 Jul 200

Four Generations: SUSY and SUSY Breaking

We revisit four generations within the context of supersymmetry. We compute the perturbativity limits for the fourth generation Yukawa couplings and show that if the masses of the fourth generation lie within reasonable limits of their present experimental lower bounds, it is possible to have perturbativity only up to scales around 1000 TeV. Such low scales are ideally suited to incorporate gauge mediated supersymmetry breaking, where the mediation scale can be as low as 10-20 TeV. The minimal messenger model, however, is highly constrained. While lack of electroweak symmetry breaking rules out a large part of the parameter space, a small region exists, where the fourth generation stau is tachyonic. General gauge mediation with its broader set of boundary conditions is better suited to accommodate the fourth generation.Comment: 27 pages, 5 figure

Electron and Neutron Electric Dipole Moments in the Constrained MSSM

We analyze the effects of CP-violating phases on the electric dipole moment (EDM) of electron and neutron in the constrained minimal supersymmetric model. We find that the phases phi_{\mu} and phi_{A_0} have to be strongly correlated, in particular for small values of the SUSY mass parameters. We calculate the neutron EDM in two different models, the Quark-Parton Model and the Chiral Quark Model. It turns out that the predictions are quite sensitive to the model used. We show parameter regions in the M_0-M_1/2 plane which are excluded by considering simultaneously the experimental bounds of both electron and neutron EDM, assuming specific values for the phases phi_{\mu} and phi_{A_0}.Comment: 23 pages LaTeX with 8 figures included, using the epsfig-stylefil

DYNAMICAL GENERATION OF GAUGE BOSONS OF HIDDEN LOCAL SYMMETRIES IN NONLINEAR SIGMA-MODELS

Kögerler R, LUCHA W, NEUFELD H, STREMNITZER H. DYNAMICAL GENERATION OF GAUGE BOSONS OF HIDDEN LOCAL SYMMETRIES IN NONLINEAR SIGMA-MODELS. PHYSICS LETTERS B. 1988;201(3):335-339