Published October 1, 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

ν-gauge mediated supersymmetry breaking with type III seesaw mechanism and phenomenology

  • 1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, California 92697 (United States)
  • 2. Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics and Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742 (United States) and Theory Group, KEK, 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, 305-0801 (Japan)
  • 3. Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics and Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742 (United States)

Description

We show that when the supersymmetric SU(5) model is extended to explain small neutrino masses by the type III seesaw mechanism, the new 24-dimensional fields needed for the purpose can act as messengers for transmitting SUSY breaking from a hidden sector to the visible sector. For the three 24s case, the constraints of grand unification and suppressed lepton flavor violation restrict the seesaw scale in this case to be in the narrow range of 1012-1013 GeV. The model predicts (i) a stable lightest superpartner gravitino with mass in the range of 1-10 MeV which can be a cold dark matter of the universe; (ii) a stau next to lightest superpartner, which is detectable at the LHC; (iii) a lower bound on the branching ratio BR(μ→eγ) larger than 10-14 testable by the ongoing Muegamma (MEG) experiment as well as a characteristic particle spectrum different from other SUSY breaking scenarios. We also discuss the case with two 24 fields, which is the minimal case that can explain neutrino oscillation data.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
78
Journal Issue
7
Journal Page Range
p. 075011-075011.9
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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(c) 2008 The American Physical Society