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Flavour violation in supersymmetric SO(10) unification with a type II seesaw mechanism

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Lorenzo Calibbia, Michele Frigeriob, Stéphane Lavignacb and Andrea Romaninoa

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We study flavour violation in a supersymmetric SO(10) implementation of the type II seesaw mechanism, which provides a predictive realization of triplet leptogenesis. The experimental upper bounds on lepton flavour violating processes have a significant impact on the leptogenesis dynamics, in particular they exclude the strong washout regime. Requiring successful leptogenesis then constrains the otherwise largely unknown overall size of flavour-violating observables, thus yielding testable predictions. In particular, the branching ratio for μ → eγ lies within the reach of the MEG experiment if the superpartner spectrum is accessible at the LHC, and the supersymmetric contribution to εK can account for a significant part of the experimental value. We show that this scenario can be realized in a consistent SO(10) model achieving gauge symmetry breaking and doublet-triplet splitting in agreement with the proton decay bounds, improving on the MSSM prediction for α3(mZ), and reproducing the measured quark and lepton masses.

Keywords

Rare Decays

Beyond Standard Model

GUT

PACS

11.30.Hv Flavor symmetries

11.30.Pb Supersymmetry

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

12.60.Jv Supersymmetric models

14.60.Ef Muons

13.35.Bv Decays of muons

Subjects

Particle physics and field theory

Dates

Issue 12 (December 2009)

Received 16 October 2009, accepted for publication 25 November 2009

Published 18 December 2009



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