Published October 24, 1994 | Version v1
Journal article

Grand-unification effects in the soft supersymmetry breaking terms

  • 1. Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 (United States)

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In minimal supergravity theories the soft supersymmetry breaking (SSB) parameters are universal near the Planck scale. Nevertheless, one often assumes universality at the grand-unification scale MG∼1016 GeV, and corrections to the SSB parameters arising from their evolution between the Planck and grand-unification scales are neglected. We study these corrections in minimal SU(5) and show that large splittings between the scalar mass parameters can be induced at MG. These effects are model dependent and lead to significant uncertainties in the predictions of supersymmetric models

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Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
73
Journal Issue
17
Journal Page Range
p. 2292-2295.
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO