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Heavy Thresholds, Slepton Masses and the Term in Anomaly Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking
The effects of heavy mass thresholds on anomaly-mediated soft supersymmetry
breaking terms are discussed. While heavy thresholds completely decouple to
lowest order in the supersymmetry breaking, it is argued that they do affect
the breaking terms at higher orders. The relevant contributions typically occur
at lower order in the loop expansion compared to purely anomaly mediated
contributions. The non decoupling contributions may be used to render models in
which the only source of supersymmetry breaking is anomaly mediation viable, by
generating positive contributions to the sleptons' masses squared. They can
also be used to generate acceptable mu- and B-terms.Comment: 25 pages, late
LHC Benchmarks from Flavored Gauge Mediation
We present benchmark points for LHC searches from flavored gauge mediation
models, in which messenger-matter couplings give flavor-dependent squark
masses. Our examples include spectra in which a single squark - stop, scharm,
or sup - is much lighter than all other colored superpartners, motivating
improved quark flavor tagging at the LHC. Many examples feature flavor mixing;
in particular, large stop-scharm mixing is possible. The correct Higgs mass is
obtained in some examples by virtue of the large stop A-term. We also revisit
the general flavor and CP structure of the models. Even though the A-terms can
be substantial, their contributions to EDM's are very suppressed, because of
the particular dependence of the A-terms on the messenger coupling. This holds
regardless of the messenger-coupling texture. More generally, the special
structure of the soft terms often leads to stronger suppression of flavor- and
CP-violating processes, compared to naive estimates.Comment: 32 pages, 11 figures. Updated to published versio
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Standard model and supersymmetric flavor puzzles at the CERN large hadron collider
Can the Large Hadron Collider explain the masses and mixings of the known
fermions? A promising possibility is that these masses and mixings are
determined by flavor symmetries that also govern new particles that will appear
at the LHC. We consider well-motivated examples in supersymmetry with both
gravity- and gauge-mediation. Contrary to spreading belief, new physics need
not be minimally flavor violating. We build non-minimally flavor violating
models that successfully explain all known lepton masses and mixings, but span
a wide range in their predictions for slepton flavor violation. In natural and
favorable cases, these models have metastable sleptons and are characterized by
fully reconstructible events. We outline many flavor measurements that are then
possible and describe their prospects for resolving both the standard model and
new physics flavor puzzles at the Large Hadron Collider
TRIPLE-PRODUCT SPIN-MOMENTUM CORRELATIONS IN POLARIZED Z DECAYS TO THREE JETS.
We discuss hard rescattering effects that can be measured using CP-even,
T-odd triple-product observables in polarized decays to three
jets. We show that the standard model contributions, from both QCD and
electroweak rescattering, are very small. Thus these measurements are
potentially sensitive to physics beyond the standard model. We investigate one
such contribution which involves a new gauge boson coupling to baryon number.Comment: 4 pages, LaTeX file. One figure not included available upon request
from [email protected]. Text with encapsulated figures also
available in postscript form by anonymous ftp from
ftp://preprint.slac.stanford.edu/preprints/hep-ph/9503 . Talk given at the
4th International Conference on Physics Beyond the Standard Model, Lake
Tahoe, CA, December 94, by Y. S
Theoretical Expectations for the Muon's Electric Dipole Moment
We examine the muon's electric dipole moment \dmu from a variety of theoretical perspectives. We point out that the reported deviation in the muon's g-2 can be due partially or even entirely to a new physics contribution to the muon's {\em electric} dipole moment. In fact, the recent g-2 measurement provides the most stringent bound on \dmu to date. This ambiguity could be definitively resolved by the dedicated search for \dmu recently proposed. We then consider both model-independent and supersymmetric frameworks. Under the assumptions of scalar degeneracy, proportionality, and flavor conservation, the theoretical expectations for \dmu in supersymmetry fall just below the proposed sensitivity. However, non-degeneracy can give an order of magnitude enhancement, and lepton flavor violation can lead to \dmu of order e cm, two orders of magnitude above the sensitivity of the \dmu experiment. We present compact expressions for leptonic dipole moments and lepton flavor violating amplitudes. We also derive new limits on the amount of flavor violation allowed and demonstrate that approximations previously used to obtain such limits are highly inaccurate in much of parameter space
Visible Effects of the Hidden Sector
The renormalization of operators responsible for soft supersymmetry breaking
is usually calculated by starting at some high scale and including only visible
sector interactions in the evolution equations, while ignoring hidden sector
interactions. Here we explain why this is correct only for the most trivial
structures in the hidden sector, and discuss possible implications. This
investigation was prompted by the idea of conformal sequestering. In that
framework hidden sector renormalizations by nearly conformal dynamics are
critical. In the original models of conformal sequestering it was necessary to
impose hidden sector flavor symmetries to achieve the sequestered form. We
present models which can evade this requirement and lead to no-scale or anomaly
mediated boundary conditions; but the necessary structures do not seem generic.
More generally, the ratios of scalar masses to gaugino masses, the -term,
the -term, -terms, and the gravitino mass can be significantly
affected.Comment: 23 pages, no figure
Metastable Rank-Condition Supersymmetry Breaking in a Chiral Example
We discuss generalizations of Intriligator-Seiberg-Shih (ISS) vacua to chiral
models. We study one example, of an s-confining theory, in detail. In the IR,
this example reduces to two ISS-like sectors, and exhibits a
supersymmetry-breaking vacuum with all pseudo-moduli stabilized at the origin,
and with the R-symmetry unbroken. The IR theory is interesting from the point
of view of R-symmetry breaking. This theory is an O'Raifeartaigh model with all
charges zero or two, but the presence of a second R-charged pseudo-modulus with
superpotential couplings to the messengers in principle allows for R-symmetry
breaking.Comment: 9 page
Light GUT Triplets and Yukawa Splitting
Triplet-mediated proton decay in Grand Unified Theories (GUTs) is usually
suppressed by arranging a large triplet mass. Here we explore instead a
mechanism for suppressing the couplings of the triplets to the first and second
generations compared to the Yukawa couplings, so that the triplets' mass can be
below the GUT scale. This mechanism is based on a ``triplet symmetry'' in the
context of product-group GUTs. We study two possibilities. One, which requires
the top Yukawa to arise from a non-renormalizable operator at the GUT scale, is
that all triplet couplings to matter are negligible, so that the triplets can
be at the weak scale. The second is that some triplet couplings, and in
particular and , are equal to the corresponding
Yukawa couplings. This would give a distinct signature of grand unification if
the triplets were sufficiently light. However, we derive a model-independent
bound on the triplet mass in this case, which is at least 10GeV. Finally,
we construct a GUT model based on Yukawa splitting, with the triplets at
10GeV, as required for coupling unification to work.Comment: 5 pages, Revtex4, 1 EPS figure. To appear in PRD: Minor changes.
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Neutrino Parameters, Abelian Flavor Symmetries, and Charged Lepton Flavor Violation
Neutrino masses and mixings have important implications for models of fermion
masses, and, most directly, for the charged lepton sector. We consider
supersymmetric Abelian flavor models, where neutrino mass parameters are
related to those of charged leptons and sleptons. We show that processes such
as \tau to \mu\gamma, \mu to e\gamma and \mu-e conversion provide interesting
probes. In particular, some existing models are excluded by current bounds,
while many others predict rates within reach of proposed near future
experiments. We also construct models in which the predicted rates for charged
lepton flavor violation are below even the proposed experimental sensitivities,
but argue that such models necessarily involve loss of predictive power.Comment: 27 pages, refs added, published versio
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