Published December 13, 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Flavorful supersymmetry

Description

Weak scale supersymmetry provides elegant solutions to many of the problems of the standard model, but it also generically gives rise to excessive flavor and CP violation. We show that, if the mechanism that suppresses the Yukawa couplings also suppresses flavor changing interactions in the supersymmetry breaking parameters, essentially all the low energy flavor and CP constraints can be satisfied. The standard assumption of flavor universality in the supersymmetry breaking sector is not necessary. We study signatures of this framework at the LHC. The mass splitting among different generations of squarks and sleptons can be much larger than in conventional scenarios, and even the mass ordering can be changed. We find that there is a plausible scenario in which the next-to-lightest superparticle is a long-lived right-handed selectron or smuon which decays into the lightest superparticle, a gravitino. This leads to the spectacular signature of monochromatic electrons or muons in a stopper detector, providing strong evidence for the framework

Availability note (English)

Available from OSTI as DE00934761; PURL: https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/934761-V2BjbW/

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Journal Volume
77
Journal Page Range
p. 21
ISSN
1550-7998

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Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
AC02-05CH11231
Funding organization
Physics Division (United States)
Secondary number(s)
LBNL--444E