Published April 1, 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

Warped supersymmetric unification with a nonunified superparticle spectrum

  • 1. Theoretical Physics Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)
  • 2. Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)
  • 3. Department of Physics, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts 01267 (United States)

Description

We present a new supersymmetric extension of the standard model. The model is constructed in warped space, with a unified bulk symmetry broken by boundary conditions on both the Planck and TeV branes. In the supersymmetric limit, the massless spectrum contains exotic colored particles along with the particle content of the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM). Nevertheless, the model still reproduces the MSSM prediction for gauge coupling unification and does not suffer from a proton decay problem. The exotic states acquire masses from supersymmetry breaking, making the model completely viable, but there is still the possibility that these states will be detected at the LHC. The lightest of these states is most likely A5XY, the fifth component of the gauge field associated with the broken unified symmetry. Because supersymmetry is broken on the SU(5)-violating TeV brane, the gaugino masses generated at the TeV scale are completely independent of one another. We explore some of the unusual features that the superparticle spectrum might have as a consequence

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
71
Journal Issue
7
Journal Page Range
p. 075004-075004.11
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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