Published November 1, 2002 | Version v1
Journal article

Probing neutrino properties with charged scalar lepton decays

  • 1. Astroparticle and High Energy Physics Group, IFIC-Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular, Edificio Institutos de Investigacion, Apartado de Correos 22085, E-46071 Valencia (Spain)
  • 2. Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Universitaet Zuerich, CH-8057 Zurich (Switzerland)
  • 3. Departamento de Fisica, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Av. Rovisco Pais 1, 1049-001 Lisbon (Portugal)

Description

Supersymmetry with bilinear R-parity violation provides a predictive framework for neutrino masses and mixings in agreement with current neutrino oscillation data. The model leads to striking signals at future colliders through the R-parity violating decays of the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP). Here we study charged scalar lepton decays and demonstrate that if the scalar tau is the LSP (i) it will decay within the detector, despite the smallness of the neutrino masses, (ii) the relative ratio of branching ratios Br(τ-tilde1→eΣνi)/Br(τ-tilde1→μΣνi) is predicted from the measured solar neutrino angle, and (iii) scalar muon and scalar electron decays will allow us to test the consistency of the model. Thus, bilinear R-parity breaking SUSY will be testable at future colliders also in the case where the LSP is not the neutralino

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
66
Journal Issue
9
Journal Page Range
p. 095006-095006.10
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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(c) 2002 The American Physical Society