491 research outputs found
Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database
Book review of Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database \ud
Author: Lev Manovich, Andreas Kratky\ud
Publisher: Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 200
Neutralino Phenomenology at LEP2 in Supersymmetry with Bilinear Breaking of R-parity
We discuss the phenomenology of the lightest neutralino in models where an
effective bilinear term in the superpotential parametrizes the explicit
breaking of R-parity. We consider supergravity scenarios where the lightest
supersymmetric particle (LSP) is the lightest neutralino and which can be
explored at LEP2. We present a detailed study of the LSP decay properties and
general features of the corresponding signals expected at LEP2. We also
contrast our model with gauge mediated supersymmetry breaking.Comment: 21 pages, Latex, uses axodraw.sty (included), 13 figures included as
ps- and eps-files, figures slightly changed after bug-fixing, comparison with
GMSB and a few references added, version to appear in NP
Phenomenology of LFV at low-energies and at the LHC: strategies to probe the SUSY seesaw
We study the impact of a type-I SUSY seesaw concerning lepton flavour
violation (LFV) at low-energies and at the LHC. At the LHC, decays, in combination with other
observables, render feasible the reconstruction of the masses of the
intermediate sleptons, and hence the study of mass
differences. If interpreted as being due to the violation of lepton flavour,
high-energy observables, such as large slepton mass splittings and flavour
violating neutralino and slepton decays, are expected to be accompanied by
low-energy manifestations of LFV such as radiative and three-body lepton
decays. We discuss how to devise strategies based in the interplay of slepton
mass splittings as might be observed at the LHC and low-energy LFV observables
to derive important information on the underlying mechanism of LFV.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures. To appear in the proceedings of the 11th
International Workshop on Tau Lepton Physics (TAU2010), Manchester, UK, 13-17
September 201
Lepton flavour violation: physics potential of a Linear Collider
We revisit the potential of a Linear Collider concerning the study of lepton
flavour violation, in view of new LHC bounds and of the (very) recent
developments in lepton physics. Working in the framework of a type I
supersymmetric seesaw, we evaluate the prospects of observing seesaw-induced
lepton flavour violating final states of the type e \mu + missing energy,
arising from e+ e- and e- e- collisions. In both cases we address the potential
background from standard model and supersymmetric charged currents. We also
explore the possibility of electron and positron beam polarisation. The
statistical significance of the signal, even in the absence of kinematical
and/or detector cuts, renders the observation of such flavour violating events
feasible over large regions of the parameter space. We further consider the
\mu-\mu- + E^T_miss final state in the e- e- beam option finding that, due to a
very suppressed background, this process turns out to be a truly clear probe of
a supersymmetric seesaw, assuming the latter to be the unique source of lepton
flavour violation.Comment: 30 pages, 48 figure
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