Low energy supersymmetry with baryon and lepton number gauged
- 1. California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, California 91125 (United States)
- 2. Phenomenology Institute, Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin 53706 (United States)
Description
We investigate the spontaneous breaking of the Baryon (B) and Lepton (L) number at the TeV scale in supersymmetric models. A simple extension of the minimal supersymmetric standard model where B and L are spontaneously broken local gauge symmetries is proposed. The B and L symmetry breaking scales are defined by the supersymmetry breaking scale. By gauging B and L, we understand the absence of the baryon and lepton number violating interactions of dimension four and five in the minimal supersymmetric standard model. Furthermore, we show that even though these symmetries are spontaneously broken there are no dangerous operators mediating proton decay. We discuss the main properties of the spectrum, the possible baryon number violating decays and the implications for the dark matter candidates. In this model, one can have lepton number violating signals from the decays of the right-handed neutrinos and baryon number violating signals from the decays of squarks and gauginos without conflict with the bounds coming from proton decay, n-n oscillations and dinucleon decays.
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.84.055015;
- arXiv
- arXiv:1105.3190v2;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
- Journal Volume
- 84
- Journal Issue
- 5
- Journal Page Range
- p. 055015-055015.7
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDAQ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 43083358
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- BARYON NUMBER; GAUGE INVARIANCE; LEPTON NUMBER; NEUTRINOS; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; OSCILLATIONS; PARTICLE DECAY; PROTONS; SPECTRA; STANDARD MODEL; SUPERSYMMETRY; SYMMETRY BREAKING; TEV RANGE
- Descriptors DEC
- BARYONS; DECAY; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; FERMIONS; FIELD THEORIES; GRAND UNIFIED THEORY; HADRONS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATTER; NUCLEONS; PARTICLE MODELS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SYMMETRY; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS
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- Notes
- (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics