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About R-parity and the Supersymmetric Standard Model

Pierre Fayet
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We recall the obstacles which seemed, long ago, to prevent one from viewing supersymmetry as a possible fundamental symmetry of Nature. Is spontaneous supersymmetry breaking possible ? Where is the spin-1/2 Goldstone fermion of supersymmetry, if not a neutrino ? Which bosons and fermions could be related ? Can one define conserved baryon and lepton numbers in such theories, although they systematically involve self-conjugate Majorana fermions ? If we have to postulate the existence of new bosons carrying B and L (the new spin-0 squarks and sleptons), can we prevent them from mediating new unwanted interactions ? We then recall how we obtained the three basic ingredients of the Supersymmetric Standard Model: 1) the SU(3) x SU(2) x U(1) gauge superfields; 2) the chiral quark and lepton superfields; 3) the two doublet Higgs superfields responsible for the electroweak breaking, and the generation of quark and lepton masses. The original continuous ``R-invariance'' of this model was soon abandoned in favor of its discrete version, R-parity, so that the gravitino, and gluinos, can acquire masses - gluinos getting their masses from supergravity, or radiative corrections. R-parity forbids unwanted squark and slepton exchanges, and guarantees the stability of the ``lightest supersymmetric particle''. It is present only since we restricted the initial superpotential to be an even function of quark and lepton superfields (so as to allow for B and L conservation laws), as made apparent by the formula re-expressing R-parity as (-1)^2S (-1)^(3B+L). Whether it turns out to be absolutely conserved, or not, R-parity plays an essential role in the phenomenology of supersymmetric theories, and the experimental searches for the new sparticles.

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Pierre Fayet. 1999-12-18. About R-parity and the Supersymmetric Standard Model. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789812793850_0027

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