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R. Rattazzi

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arXiv1997

Extracting Supersymmetry-Breaking Effects from Wave-Function Renormalization

We show that in theories in which supersymmetry breaking is communicated by renormalizable perturbative interactions, it is possible to extract the soft terms for the observable fields from wave-function renormalization. Therefore all the information about soft terms can be obtained from anomalous dimensions and beta functions, with no need to further compute any Feynman diagram. This method greatly simplifies calculations which are rather involved if performed in terms of component fields. For illustrative purposes we reproduce known results of theories with gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking. We then use our method to obtain new results of phenomenological importance. We calculate the next-to-leading correction to the Higgs mass parameters, the two-loop soft terms induced by messenger-matter superpotential couplings, and the soft terms generated by messengers belonging to vector supermultiplets.

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arXiv1997

R-Parity Violation and Unification

The reported anomaly in deep-inelastic scattering at HERA has revived interest in the phenomenology of R-parity violation. From the theoretical point of view, the existence of R-violating interactions poses two considerable problems. The first one concerns the flavour structure of the interactions and the origin of an appropriate suppression of flavour-changing neutral-current processes and lepton-family transitions. The second one concerns the way of embedding R-violating interactions in a grand unified theory (GUT) without introducing unacceptable nucleon decay rates. We show that the second problem can be solved by a mechanism which is purely group theoretical and does not rely on details of the flavour theory. We construct explicit GUT models in which our mechanism can be realized.

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arXiv1997

Large tan beta in Gauge-Mediated SUSY-Breaking Models

We explore some topics in the phenomenology of gauge-mediated SUSY-breaking scenarios having a large hierarchy of Higgs VEVs, $v_U/v_D = tanβ\gg 1$. Some motivation for this scenario is first presented. We then use a systematic, analytic expansion (including some threshold corrections) to calculate the $μ$ parameter needed for proper electroweak breaking and the radiative corrections to the B parameter, which fortuitously cancel at leading order. If B = 0 at the messenger scale then $tanβ$ is naturally large and calculable; we calculate it. We then confront this prediction with classical and quantum vacuum stability constraints arising from the Higgs-slepton potential, and indicate the preferred values of the top quark mass and messenger scale(s). The possibility of vacuum instability in a different direction yields an upper bound on the messenger mass scale complementary to the familiar bound from gravitino relic abundance. Next, we calculate the rate for $b\to sγ$ and show the possibility of large deviations (in the direction currently favored by experiment) from standard-model and small $tanβ$ predictions. Finally, we discuss the implications of these findings and their applicability to future, broader and more detailed investigations.

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arXiv1995

Disoriented Sleptons

We discuss some fundamental concerns regarding the recent proposal of Dimopoulos and Giudice for dynamically aligning the soft masses of the sfermions in the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) with the corresponding fermion masses to suppress flavor changing neutral currents. We show that the phenomenologically-favored presence of right-handed neutrinos in the theory, even if only at very high scales, generically disaligns the slepton mass matrices. Further suppression is then needed to meet the current upper bound on the rate for $μ\to eγ$. Planned improvements in the search for $μ\to eγ$ should easily detect this rare mode. (With improved sensitivity $μ\to 3e$ may also be seen.) By measuring the helicity of the amplitude for $μ\to eγ$ such experiments could distinguish between unified and non-unified models at very high energies; by inserting the various MSSM parameters as they become available, the mixing in the leptonic Yukawa couplings can be extracted; and by combining the results with those of various neutrino experiments some information about the right-handed neutrino Majorana matrices can also be gained.

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arXiv1995

The Unified Minimal Supersymmetric Model with Large Yukawa Couplings

The consequences of assuming the third-generation Yukawa couplings are all large and comparable are studied in the context of the minimal supersymmetric extension of the standard model. General aspects of the RG evolution of the parameters, theoretical constraints needed to ensure proper electroweak symmetry breaking, and experimental and cosmological bounds on low-energy parameters are presented. We also present complete and exact semi-analytic solutions to the 1-loop RG equations. Focusing on SU(5) or SO(10) unification, we analyze the relationship between the top and bottom masses and the superspectrum, and the phenomenological implications of the GUT conditions on scalar masses. Future experimental measurements of the superspectrum and of the strong coupling will distinguish between various GUT-scale scenarios. And if present experimental knowledge is to be accounted for most naturally, a particular set of predictions is singled out.

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arXiv1992

Inverse Hierarchy Approach to Fermion Masses

The first fermion family might play a special role in understanding the physics of flavour. This possibility is suggested by the observation that the up-down splitting within quark families increases with the family number: $ m_u\sim m_d$, $m_c>m_s$, $m_t\gg m_b$. We construct a model that realizes this feature of the spectrum in a natural way. The inter-family hierarchy is first generated by radiative phenomena in a sector of heavy isosinglet fermions and then transferred to quarks by means of a universal seesaw. A crucial role is played by left-right parity and up-down isotopic symmetry. No family symmetry is introduced. The model implies $m_u/m_d>$ 0.5 and the Cabibbo angle is forced to be $\sim\sqrt{m_d/m_s}$. The top quark is naturally in the 100 GeV range, but not too heavy: $m_t<$ 150 GeV. Inspired by the mass matrices obtained in the model for quarks, we suggest an ansatz also including charged leptons. The differences between $u$-, $d$- and $e$-type fermions are simply parametrized by three complex coefficients $\eps{u}$, $\eps{d}$ and $\eps{e}$. Additional consistent predictions are obtained: $m_s$=100-150 MeV and $m_u/m_d<$ 0.75.

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