45 research outputs found
Can Measurements of Electric Dipole Moments Determine the Seesaw Parameters?
In the context of the supersymmetrized seesaw mechanism embedded in the
Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM), complex neutrino Yukawa couplings
can induce Electric Dipole Moments (EDMs) for the charged leptons, providing an
additional route to seesaw parameters. However, the complex neutrino Yukawa
matrix is not the only possible source of CP violation. Even in the framework
of Constrained MSSM (CMSSM), there are additional sources, usually attributed
to the phases of the trilinear soft supersymmetry breaking couplings and the
mu-term, which contribute not only to the electron EDM but also to the EDMs of
neutron and heavy nuclei. In this work, by combining bounds on various EDMs, we
analyze how the sources of CP violation can be discriminated by the present and
planned EDM experiments.Comment: 26 pages, 9 figures; added reference
Neutron-Electron EDM Correlations in Supersymmetry and Prospects for EDM Searches
Motivated by recent progress in experimental techniques of electric dipole
moment (EDM) measurements, we study correlations between the neutron and
electron EDMs in common supersymmetric models. These include minimal
supergravity (mSUGRA) with small CP phases, mSUGRA with a heavy SUSY spectrum,
the decoupling scenario and split SUSY. In most cases, the electron and neutron
EDMs are found to be observable in the next round of EDM experiments. They
exhibit certain correlation patterns. For example, if d_n ~ 10^{-27} e cm is
found, d_e is predicted to lie in the range 10^{-28}-10^{-29} e cm.Comment: 16 pages,12 figures. To appear in JHEP. A note on stability of the
correlations added in Conclusions; refs. and footnotes adde
Reconstructing the two right-handed neutrino model
In this paper we propose a low-energy parametrization of the two right-handed
neutrino model, and discuss the prospects to determine experimentally these
parameters in supersymmetric scenarios. In addition, we present exact formulas
to reconstruct the high-energy leptonic superpotential in terms of the
low-energy observables. We also discuss limits of the three right-handed
neutrino model where this procedure applies.Comment: 28 pages, 4 figures. Typos corrected, references adde
Probing CP Violation with the Deuteron Electric Dipole Moment
We present an analysis of the electric dipole moment (EDM) of the deuteron as
induced by CP-violating operators of dimension 4, 5 and 6 including theta QCD,
the EDMs and color EDMs of quarks, four-quark interactions and the Weinberg
operator. We demonstrate that the precision goal of the EDM Collaboration's
proposal to search for the deuteron EDM, (1-3)\times 10^{-27} e cm, will
provide an improvement in sensitivity to these sources of one-two orders of
magnitude relative to the existing bounds. We consider in detail the level to
which CP-odd phases can be probed within the MSSM.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures; precision estimates clarified, to appear in Phys.
Rev.
High magnetic fields for fundamental physics
Various fundamental-physics experiments such as measurement of the magnetic birefringence of the vacuum, searches for ultralight dark-matter particles (e.g., axions), and precision spectroscopy of complex systems (including exotic atoms containing antimatter constituents) are enabled by high-field magnets. We give an overview of current and future experiments and discuss the state-of-the-art DC- and pulsed-magnet technologies and prospects for future developments
Phenomenology of the nMSSM from colliders to cosmology
Low energy supersymmetric models provide a solution to the hierarchy problem
and also have the necessary ingredients to solve two of the most outstanding
issues in cosmology: the origin of dark matter and baryonic matter. One of the
most attractive features of this framework is that the relevant physical
processes are related to interactions at the weak scale and therefore may be
tested in collider experiments in the near future. This is true for the Minimal
Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) as well as for its extension with the
addition of one singlet chiral superfield, the so-called nMSSM. It has been
recently shown that within the nMSSM an elegant solution to both the problem of
baryogenesis and dark matter may be found, that relies mostly on the mixing of
the singlet sector with the Higgs sector of the theory. In this work we review
the nMSSM model constraints from cosmology and present the associated collider
phenomenology at the LHC and the ILC. We show that the ILC will efficiently
probe the neutralino, chargino and Higgs sectors, allowing to confront
cosmological observations with computations based on collider measurements. We
also investigate the prospects for a direct detection of dark matter and the
constraints imposed by the current bounds of the electron electric dipole
moment in this model.Comment: 44 pp, 10 figures; Fig.9 replaced; discussion on CP violation
extended and references added; few minor additions in text about details of
the cut
Natural Neutrino Masses and Mixings from Warped Geometry
We demonstrate that flavor symmetries in warped geometry can provide a
natural explanation for large mixing angles and economically explain the
distinction between the quark and lepton flavor sectors. We show how to
naturally generate Majorana neutrino masses assuming a gauged a U(1)_{B-L}
symmetry broken in the UV that generates see-saw masses of the right size. This
model requires lepton minimal flavor violation (LMFV) in which only Yukawa
matrices (present on the IR brane) break the flavor symmetries. The
symmetry-breaking is transmitted to charged lepton bulk mass parameters as well
to generate the hierarchy of charged lepton masses. With LMFV, a GIM-like
mechanism prevents dangerous flavor-changing processes for charged leptons and
permits flavor-changing processes only in the presence of the neutrino Yukawa
interaction and are therefore suppressed when the overall scale for the
neutrino Yukawa matrix is slightly smaller than one in units of the curvature.
In this case the theory can be consistent with a cutoff of 10 TeV and 3 TeV
Kaluza-Klein masses.Comment: 18 pages, 3 figures, to match with published versio
Synchrotron oscillation effects on an rf-solenoid spin resonance
New measurements are reported for the time dependence of the vertical polarization of a 0: 97 GeV/c deuteron beam circulating in a storage ring and perturbed by an rf solenoid. The storage ring is the cooler synchrotron (COSY) located at the Forschungszentrum Julich. The beam polarization was measured continuously using a 1.5 cm thick carbon target located at the edge of the circulating deuteron beam and the scintillators of the EDDA detector. An rf solenoid mounted on the ring was used to generate fields at and near the frequency of the 1 - G gamma spin resonance. Measurements were made of the vertical beam polarization as a function of time with the operation of the rf solenoid in either fixed or continuously variable frequency mode. Using rf-solenoid strengths as large as 2.66 x 10(-5) revolutions/turn, slow oscillations (similar to 1 Hz) were observed in the vertical beam polarization. When the circulating beam was continuously electron cooled, these oscillations completely reversed the polarization and showed no sign of diminishing in amplitude. But for the uncooled beam, the oscillation amplitude was damped to nearly zero within a few seconds. A simple spin-tracking model without the details of the COSY ring lattice was successful in reproducing these oscillations and demonstrating the sensitivity of the damping to the magnitude of the synchrotron motion of the beam particles. The model demonstrates that the characteristic features of measurements made in the presence of large synchrotron oscillations are distinct from the features of such measurements when made off resonance. These data were collected in preparation for a study of the spin coherence time, a beam property that needs to become long to enable a search for an electric dipole moment using a storage ring
News from the Muon (g-2) Experiment at BNL
The magnetic moment anomaly a_mu = (g_mu - 2) / 2 of the positive muon has
been measured at the Brookhaven Alternating Gradient Synchrotron with an
uncertainty of 0.7 ppm. The new result, based on data taken in 2000, agrees
well with previous measurements. Standard Model evaluations currently differ
from the experimental result by 1.6 to 3.0 standard deviations.Comment: Talk presented at RADCOR - Loops and Legs 2002, Kloster Banz,
Germany, September 8-13 2002, to be published in Nuclear Physics B (Proc.
Suppl.); 5 pages, 3 figure