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Direct Detection of Electroweak-Interacting Dark Matter
Assuming that the lightest neutral component in an SU(2)L gauge multiplet is
the main ingredient of dark matter in the universe, we calculate the elastic
scattering cross section of the dark matter with nucleon, which is an important
quantity for the direct detection experiments. When the dark matter is a real
scalar or a Majorana fermion which has only electroweak gauge interactions, the
scattering with quarks and gluon are induced through one- and two-loop quantum
processes, respectively, and both of them give rise to comparable contributions
to the elastic scattering cross section. We evaluate all of the contributions
at the leading order and find that there is an accidental cancellation among
them. As a result, the spin-independent cross section is found to be
O(10^-(46-48)) cm^2, which is far below the current experimental bounds.Comment: 19 pages, 7 figures, published versio
Gluon contribution to the dark matter direct detection
In this article we have calculated the spin-independent cross section of
nucleon-dark matter scattering process at loop level, which is relevant to dark
matter direct detection. Paying particular attention to the scattering of gluon
with dark matter, which contributes as leading order in the perturbation, we
have systematically evaluated loop diagrams with tracking the characteristic
loop momentum which dominates in the loops. Here loop diagrams whose typical
loop momentum scales are the masses of quarks and other heavier particles are
separately presented. Then, we have properly taken into account each
contribution to give the cross section. We assume that the dark matter is pure
bino or wino in the supersymmetric models. The application to other models is
straightforward.Comment: 23 pages, 10 figure
Search for neutrinoless tau decays tau -> 3l and tau -> l K0S
Neutrinoless tau-lepton decays into either three leptons (tau- -> l1- l2 l3)
or one lepton and one K0S meson(tau- -> l- K0S) where lepton l means either an
electron or muon, have been searched for using 48.6 fb^{-1} of data collected
with the Belle detector at the KEKB e+e- collider. No evidence for candidate
decays are found in any channel. Therefore we set 90% confidence level upper
limits on the branching fraction for 8 different decay modes. These limits are
more stringent than those set previously and reach to the 10^{-7} level.Comment: Invited talk at the Seventh International Workshop on Tau Lepton
Physics (TAU02), Santa Cruz, Ca, USA, Sept 2002, 7 pages, LaTeX, 3 eps
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A Detailed Study of the Gluino Decay into the Third Generation Squarks at the CERN LHC
In supersymmetric models a gluino can decay into tb\tilde{\chi}^{\pm}_1
through a stop or a sbottom. The decay chain produces an edge structure in the
m_{tb} distribution. Monte Carlo simulation studies show that the end point and
the edge height would be measured at the CERN LHC by using a sideband
subtraction technique. The stop and sbottom masses as well as their decay
branching ratios are constrained by the measurement. We study interpretations
of the measurement in the minimal supergravity model. We also study the gluino
decay into tb and \tilde{\chi}^{\pm}_2 as well as the influence of the stop
left-right mixing on the m_{bb} distribution of the tagged events.Comment: revtex, 20 pages in PRD format, 35 eps file
A New Parametrization of the Seesaw Mechanism and Applications in Supersymmetric Models
We present a new parametrization of the minimal seesaw model, expressing the
heavy-singlet neutrino Dirac Yukawa couplings and Majorana
masses in terms of effective light-neutrino observables and an
auxiliary Hermitian matrix In the minimal supersymmetric version of the
seesaw model, the latter can be related directly to other low-energy
observables, including processes that violate charged lepton flavour and CP.
This parametrization enables one to respect the stringent constraints on
muon-number violation while studying the possible ranges for other observables
by scanning over the allowed parameter space of the model. Conversely, if any
of the lepton-flavour-violating process is observed, this measurement can be
used directly to constrain and As applications, we
study flavour-violating decays and the electric dipole moments of
leptons in the minimal supersymmetric seesaw model.Comment: Important references adde
Not Even Decoupling Can Save Minimal Supersymmetric SU(5)
We make explicit the statement that Minimal Supersymmetric SU(5) has been
excluded by the Super-Kamiokande search for the process . This exclusion is made by first placing limits on the colored
Higgs triplet mass, by forcing the gauge couplings to unify. We also show that
taking the superpartners of the first two generations to be very heavy in order
to avoid flavor changing neutral currents, the so-called ``decoupling'' idea,
is insufficient to resurrect the Minimal SUSY SU(5). We comment on various
mechanisms to further suppress proton decay in SUSY SU(5). Finally, we address
the contributions to proton decay from gauge boson exchange in the Minimal SUSY
SU(5) and flipped SU(5) models.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figure
Test of lepton flavour violation at LHC
We study lepton flavour violating decays of neutralinos and sleptons within
the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, assuming two and three generation
mixings in the slepton sector. We take into account the most recent bounds on
flavour violating rare lepton decays. Taking the SPS1a' scenario as an example,
we show that some of the lepton flavour violating branching ratios of
neutralinos and sleptons can be sizable (~ 5-10%). We study the impact of the
lepton flavour violating neutralino and slepton decays on the di-lepton mass
distributions measured at LHC. We find that they can result in novel and
characteristic edge structures in the distributions. In particular, double-edge
structures can appear in the e tau and mu tau mass spectra if ~tau_1 is the
lightest slepton. The appearance of these remarkable structures provides a
powerful test of supersymmetric lepton flavour violation at LHC.Comment: 15 page
Scenery from the Top: Study of the Third Generation Squarks at CERN LHC
In the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) properties of the third
generation sfermions are important from the viewpoint of discriminating the
SUSY breaking models and in the determination of the Higgs boson mass. If
gluinos are copiously produced at CERN LHC, gluino decays into tb through stop
and sbottom can be studied using hadronic decays of the top quark. The
kinematical endpoint of the gluino decays can be evaluated using a W sideband
method to estimate combinatorial backgrounds. This implies that fundamental
parameters related to the third generation squarks can be reliably measured.
The top-quark polarization dependence in the decay process may also be
extracted by looking at the b jet distribution near the kinematical endpoint.Comment: 4 pages in PRL format, 4 Postscript figures, uses revtex
Slepton mass-splittings as a signal of LFV at the LHC
Precise measurements of slepton mass-splittings might represent a powerful
tool to probe supersymmetric (SUSY) lepton flavour violation (LFV) at the LHC.
We point out that mass-splittings of the first two generations of sleptons are
especially sensitive to LFV effects involving transitions. If these
mass-splittings are LFV induced, high-energy LFV processes like the neutralino
decay {\nt}_2\to\nt_1\tau^{\pm}\mu^{\mp} as well as low-energy LFV processes
like are unavoidable. We show that precise slepton
mass-splitting measurements and LFV processes both at the high- and low-energy
scales are highly complementary in the attempt to (partially) reconstruct the
flavour sector of the SUSY model at work. The present study represents another
proof of the synergy and interplay existing between the LHC, i.e. the {\em
high-energy frontier}, and high-precision low-energy experiments, i.e. the {\em
high-intensity frontier}.Comment: 11 pages, 5 figures. v2: added discussion on backgrounds, added
references, version to be published on JHE
CP Violation in Kaon System in Supersymmetric SU(5) Model with Seesaw-Induced Neutrino Masses
CP violations in the kaon system are studied in supersymmetric SU(5) model
with right-handed neutrinos. We pay a special attention to the renormalization
group effect on the off-diagonal elements of the squark mass matrices. In
particular, if the Yukawa couplings and mixings in the neutrino sector are
sizable, off-diagonal elements of the right-handed down-type squark mass matrix
are generated, which affect CP and flavor violations in decay processes of the
kaon. We calculate supersymmetric contributions to epsilon (as well as Delta
m_K), Br(K_L -> pi^0 nu \bar{nu}), and epsilon'/epsilon in this framework. We
will see that the supersymmetric contribution to the epsilon parameter can be
as large as (and in some case, larger than) the experimentally measured value.
We also discuss its implication to future tests of the unitarity triangle of
the Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix.Comment: 30 pages, 5 figue
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