16 research outputs found
Yukawa Unification: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
We analyze some consequences of grand unification of the third-generation
Yukawa couplings, in the context of the minimal supersymmetric standard model.
We address two issues: the prediction of the top quark mass, and the generation
of the top-bottom mass hierarchy through a hierarchy of Higgs vacuum
expectation values. The top mass is strongly dependent on a certain ratio of
superpartner masses. And the VEV hierarchy always entails some tuning of the
GUT-scale parameters. We study the RG equations and their semi-analytic
solutions, which exhibit several interesting features, such as a focusing
effect in the limit of certain symmetries and a correlation between the
terms (which contribute to ) and the gaugino masses. This
study shows that non-universal soft-SUSY-breaking masses are favored (in
particular for splitting the Higgs doublets via D-terms and for allowing more
natural scenarios of symmetry breaking), and hints at features desired in
Yukawa-unified models. Several phenomenological implications are also revealed.Comment: (talk Uri Sarid at the Second IFT Workshop on Yukawa Couplings and
the Origins of Mass, 11-13 February 1994, Gainesville, Florida), 18 pages
plus 3 uuencoded figures (included at bottom), REVISED: small typos have been
fixed and some clarifications and a few forgotten acknowledgments and
references have been added. straight LATeX, SU-ITP-94/1
Mesino - Antimesino Oscillations
The phenomenological implications of supersymmetric theories with low scale
supersymmetry breaking and a squark as the lightest standard model superpartner
are investigated. Such squarks hadronize with light quarks, forming sbaryons
and mesinos before decaying. Production of these supersymmetric bound states at
a high energy collider can lead to displaced jets with large negative impact
parameter. Neutral mesino - antimesino oscillations are not forbidden by any
symmetry and can occur at observable rates with distinctive signatures. Stop
mesino - antimesino oscillations would give a sensitive probe of up-type
sflavor violation in the squark sector, and can provide a discovery channel for
supersymmetry through events with a same-sign top-top topology.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure, LaTe
Gravitational Smearing of Minimal Supersymmetric Unification Predictions
A short and mean paper.Comment: 10 pages total + 1 postscript figure (included), revised: all lines
are TRULY < 70 characters long (try it!); LBL-32905, UCB-PTH-92/3
Testing the Standard Model and Schemes for Quark Mass Matrices with CP Asymmetries in B Decays
The values of and , where and
are angles of the unitarity triangle, will be readily measured in a B
factory (and maybe also in hadron colliders). We study the standard model
constraints in the plane. We use the results
from recent analyses of and which take into account
heavy quark symmetry considerations. We find and
most likely \sin (2 \beta) \roughly{>} 0.6, and emphasize the strong
correlations between and . Various schemes
for quark mass matrices allow much smaller areas in the plane. We study the schemes of Fritzsch, of Dimopoulos, Hall and
Raby, and of Giudice, as well as the ``symmetric CKM'' idea, and show how CP
asymmetries in B decays will crucially test each of these schemes.Comment: 11 pages and 4 postscript figures available on request, LaTeX,
WIS-92/52/Jun-PH, LBL-3256
Tools for Tunneling
If the universe is trapped and cooled in a metastable false vacuum state,
that state will eventually decay by bubble nucleation and expansion. For
example, many extensions of the standard model incorporate new scalar fields
whose potential has a local minimum at the origin but a global minimum
elsewhere, to which the vacuum will eventually tunnel. I calculate the lifetime
of the false vacuum, and the field profile of the bubble after tunneling, for
any potential that is approximately a polynomial of degree <= 4 near the false
vacuum. Essentially exact results are given for a single field; for multiple
fields the given action is a strict upper bound.Comment: RevTeX, 4 pages, including 3 eps figures embedded via epsfig; revised
version (minor typos corrected, reference added, clarifications made) to
appear in Phys. Rev.
Low-Energy Signals for a Minimal Gauge-Mediated Model
The inclusive branching ratio and the anomalous magnetic
moment of the muon are accurately calculated within a minimal
gauge-mediated SUSY-breaking model which naturally generates a large
. The predictions are in somewhat better agreement with current
experiments, and new data will soon critically test these predictions.
Predictions for branching ratios and asymmetries, to be
tested at future colliders, are also presented.Comment: LaTeX, 9 pages, including 1 (color) figure embedded using epsf
macros; minor change to text and figure, added 1 referenc