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Seesaw mechanism in the sneutrino sector and its consequences

Athanasios Dedes1,4, Howard E. Haber2 and Janusz Rosiek1,3

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The seesaw-extended MSSM provides a framework in which the observed light neutrino masses and mixing angles can be generated in the context of a natural theory for the TeV-scale. Sneutrino-mixing phenomena provide valuable tools for connecting the physics of neutrinos and supersymmetry. We examine the theoretical structure of the seesaw-extended MSSM, retaining the full complexity of three generations of neutrinos and sneutrinos. In this general framework, new flavor-changing and CP-violating sneutrino processes are allowed, and are parameterized in terms of two 3 × 3 matrices that respectively preserve and violate lepton number. The elements of these matrices can be bounded by analyzing the rate for rare flavor-changing decays of charged leptons and the one-loop contribution to neutrino masses. In the former case, new contributions arise in the seesaw extended model which are not present in the ordinary MSSM. In the latter case, sneutrino-antisneutrino mixing generates the leading correction at one-loop to neutrino masses, and could provide the origin of the observed texture of the light neutrino mass matrix. Finally, we derive general formulae for sneutrino-antisneutrino oscillations and sneutrino flavor-oscillations. Unfortunately, neither oscillation phenomena is likely to be observable at future colliders.

Keywords

Rare Decays

Neutrino Physics

Supersymmetric Standard Model

 

E-print Number: 0707.3718

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PACS

12.60.Jv Supersymmetric models

11.30.Er Charge conjugation, parity, time reversal, and other discrete symmetries

14.60.Pq Neutrino mass and mixing

11.30.Fs Global symmetries (e.g., baryon number, lepton number)

14.80.Ly Supersymmetric partners of known particles

11.30.Hv Flavor symmetries

Subjects

Particle physics and field theory

Dates

Issue 11 (November 2007)

Received 1 August 2007, accepted for publication 5 November 2007

Published 20 November 2007



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