Seesaw extended MSSM and anomaly mediation without tachyonic sleptons
Creators
- 1. Department of Physics, Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 (United States)
Description
Superconformal anomalies provide an elegant and economical way to understand the soft breaking parameters in SUSY models; however, implementing them leads to the several undesirable features including: tachyonic sleptons and electroweak symmetry breaking problems in both the MSSM and the NMSSM. Since these two theories also have the additonal problem of massless neutrinos, we have reconsidered the AMSB problems in a class of models that extends the NMSSM to explain small neutrino masses via the seesaw mechanism. In a recent paper, we showed that for a class of minimal left-right extensions, a built-in mechanism exists which naturally solves the tachyonic slepton problem and provides new alternatives to the MSSM that also have automatic R-parity conservation. In this paper, we discuss how electroweak symmetry breaking arises in this model through an NMSSM-like low energy theory with a singlet VEV, induced by the structure of the left-right extension and of the right magnitude. We then study the phenomenological issues and find: the LSP is an Higgsino-wino mix, new phenomenology for chargino decays to the LSP, degenerate same generation sleptons and a potential for a mild squark-slepton degeneracy. We also discuss possible collider signatures and the feasibility of dark matter in this model
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2008/04/091Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of High Energy Physics
- Journal Volume
- 04
- Journal Issue
- 2008
- Journal Page Range
- p. 091
- ISSN
- 1126-6708
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Italy
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 40071634
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- MASS; NEUTRINOS; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; PARITY; PARTICLE DECAY; STANDARD MODEL; SUPERSYMMETRY; SYMMETRY BREAKING; TACHYONS
- Descriptors DEC
- DECAY; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; FIELD THEORIES; GRAND UNIFIED THEORY; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATTER; PARTICLE MODELS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; POSTULATED PARTICLES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SYMMETRY; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS