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Report of the Supersymmetry Theory Subgroup
Report of the Supersymmetry Theory Subgroup J. Amundson (Wisconsin), G. Anderson (FNAL), H. Baer (FSU), J. Bagger (Johns Hopkins), R.M. Barnett (LBNL), C.H. Chen (UC Davis), G. Cleaver (OSU), B. Dobrescu (BU), M. Drees (Wisconsin), J.F. Gunion (UC Davis), G.L. Kane (Michigan), B. Kayser (NSF), C. Kolda (IAS), J. Lykken (FNAL), S.P. Martin (Michigan), T. Moroi (LBNL), S. Mrenna (Argonne), M. Nojiri (KEK), D. Pierce (SLAC), X. Tata (Hawaii), S. Thomas (SLAC), J.D. Wells (SLAC), B. Wright (North Carolina), Y. Yamada (Wisconsin) ABSTRACT Spacetime supersymmetry appears to be a fundamental in- gredient of superstring theory. We provide a mini-guide to some of the possible manifesta- tions of weak-scale supersymmetry. For each of six scenarios These motivations say nothing about the scale at which nature we provide might be supersymmetric. Indeed, there are additional motiva- tions for weak-scale supersymmetry. a brief description of the theoretical underpinnings, Incorporation of supersymmetry into the SM leads to a so- the adjustable parameters, lution of the gauge hierarchy problem. Namely, quadratic divergences in loop corrections to the Higgs boson mass a qualitative description of the associated phenomenology at future colliders, will cancel between fermionic and bosonic loops. This mechanism works only if the superpartner particle masses comments on how to simulate each scenario with existing are roughly of order or less than the weak scale. event generators. There exists an experimental hint: the three gauge cou- plings can unify at the Grand Uni®cation scale if there ex- I. INTRODUCTION ist weak-scale supersymmetric particles, with a desert be- The Standard Model (SM) is a theory of spin- 1 matter tween the weak scale and the GUT scale. -
The Standard Model of Particle Physics and Beyond
Clases de Master FisyMat, Desarrollos Actuales The Standard Model of particle physics and Beyond Date and time: 02/03 to 07/04/2021 15:30–17:00 Video/Sala CAJAL Organizer and Lecturer: Abdelhak Djouadi ([email protected]) You can find the pdfs of the lectures at: https://www.ugr.es/˜adjouadi/ 6. Supersymmetric theories 6.1 Basics of Supersymmetry 6.2 The minimal Supesymmetric Standard Model 6.3 The constrained MSSM’s 6.4 The superparticle spectrum 6.5 The Higgs sector of the MSSM 6.6 Beyond the MSSM 1 6.1 Basics of Supersymmetry Here, we give only basic facts needed later in the phenomenological discussion. For details on theoretical issues, see basic textbooks like Drees, Godbole, Roy. SUperSYmmetry: is a symmetry that relates scalars/vector bosons and fermions. The SUSY generators transform fermions into bosons and vice–versa, namely: FermionQ > Boson > , Boson > Fermion > Q| | Q| | must be an anti–commuting (and thus rather complicated) object. Q † is also a distinct symmetry generator: Q † Fermion > Boson > , † Boson > Fermion > Q | | Q | | Highly restricted [e.g., no go theorem] theories and in 4-dimension with chiral fermions: 1 , † carry spin– with left- and right- helicities and they should obey Q Q 2 .... The SUSY algebra: which schematically is given by µ , † = P , , =0 , †, † =0, {Qµ Q } µ {Q Q} a {Q Qa } [P , ]=0, [P , †]=0, [T , ]=0, [T , †]=0 Q Q Q Q P µ: is the generator of space–time transformations. T a are the generators of internal (gauge) symmetries. SUSY: unique extension of the Poincar´egroup of space–time symmetry to include ⇒ a four–dimensional Quantum Field Theory.. -
Gaugino-Induced Quark and Lepton Masses in a Truly Minimal Left-Right
UCRHEP-T354 ULB-TH/03-16 NSF-KITP-03-32 May 2003 Gaugino-induced quark and lepton masses in a truly minimal left-right model J.-M. Fr`ere1,3 and Ernest Ma2,3 1 Service de Physique Th´eorique, Universit´eLibre de Bruxelles, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium 2 Physics Department, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, USA 3 Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA arXiv:hep-ph/0305155v2 20 Aug 2003 Abstract It has recently been proposed that all fundamental fermion masses (whether Dirac or Majorana) come from effective dimension-five operators in the context of a truly minimal left-right model. We show how a particularly economical scheme emerges in a supersymmetric framework, where chiral symmetry breaking originates in the gaugino sector. In the Standard Model of particle interactions, the spontaneous breaking of the SU(2)L × U(1)Y gauge symmetry to U(1)em is achieved through the vacuum expectation value of the scalar doublet Φ = (φ+,φ0). At the same time, since left-handed quarks and leptons are doublets under SU(2)L U(1)Y whereas right-handed quarks and leptons are singlets, chiral × symmetry is also broken by φ0 , thus allowing quarks and leptons to acquire the usual Dirac h i masses. The only exception is the neutrino which gets a small Majorana mass through the unique dimension-five operator [1, 2] fij 0 + 0 + Λ = (νiφ eiφ )(νjφ ejφ )+ H.c. (1) L 2Λ − − Suppose we now extend the standard-model gauge symmetry to SU(3)C SU(2)L × × SU(2)R U(1)B L [3], then the spontaneous breaking of SU(2)R U(1)B L to U(1)Y is × − × − simply achieved by the scalar doublet + 0 ΦR =(φ ,φ ) (1, 1, 2, 1), (2) R R ∼ where the notation refers to the dimension of the non-Abelian representation or the value of the Abelian charge B L or Y in the convention − 1 Y Q = I3L + I3R + (B L)= I3L + , (3) 2 − 2 while the corresponding field + 0 ΦL =(φ ,φ ) (1, 2, 1, 1), (4) L L ∼ becomes the same as the usual scalar doublet of the Standard Model, and breaks SU(2)L × U(1)Y in turn to U(1)em. -
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PERIODICALS PHYSICAL REVIEW Dä For editorial and subscription correspondence, Postmaster send address changes to: please see inside front cover (ISSN: 1550-7998) APS Subscription Services P.O. Box 41 Annapolis Junction, MD 20701 THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 90, NUMBER 5 CONTENTS D1 SEPTEMBER 2014 RAPID COMMUNICATIONS Measurement of the electric charge of the top quark in tt¯ events (8 pages) ........................................................ 051101(R) V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration) BRST-symmetry breaking and Bose-ghost propagator in lattice minimal Landau gauge (5 pages) ............................. 051501(R) Attilio Cucchieri, David Dudal, Tereza Mendes, and Nele Vandersickel ARTICLES pffiffiffi Search for supersymmetry in events with four or more leptons in s ¼ 8 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector (33 pages) ................................................................................................................................. 052001 G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration) pffiffiffi Low-mass vector-meson production at forward rapidity in p þ p collisions at s ¼ 200 GeV (12 pages) .................. 052002 A. Adare et al. (PHENIX Collaboration) Measurement of Collins asymmetries in inclusive production of charged pion pairs in eþe− annihilation at BABAR (26 pages) 052003 J. P. Lees et al. (BABAR Collaboration) Measurement of the Higgs boson mass from the H → γγ and H → ZZÃ → 4l channels in pp collisions at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector (35 pages) ................................................................... 052004 G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration) pffiffiffi Search for high-mass dilepton resonances in pp collisions at s ¼ 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector (30 pages) .......... 052005 G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration) Search for low-mass dark matter with CsI(Tl) crystal detectors (6 pages) .......................................................... 052006 H. -
Majorana Fermions in Condensed Matter Physics: the 1D Nanowire Case
Majorana Fermions in Condensed Matter Physics: The 1D Nanowire Case Philip Haupt, Hirsh Kamakari, Edward Thoeng, Aswin Vishnuradhan Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 1Z1, Canada (Dated: November 24, 2018) Majorana fermions are fermions that are their own antiparticles. Although they remain elusive as elementary particles (how they were originally proposed), they have rapidly gained interest in condensed matter physics as emergent quasiparticles in certain systems like topological supercon- ductors. In this article, we briefly review the necessary theory and discuss the \recipe" to create Majorana particles. We then consider existing experimental realisations and their methodologies. I. MOTIVATION A). Kitaev used a simplified quantum wire model to show Ettore Majorana, in 1937, postulated the existence of how Majorana modes might manifest as an emergent an elementary particle which is its own antiparticle, so phenomena, which we will now discuss. Consider 1- called Majorana fermions [1]. It is predicted that the neu- dimensional tight binding chain with spinless fermions trinos are one such elementary particle, which is yet to and p-orbital hopping. The use of unphysical spinless be detected via extremely rare neutrino-less double beta- fermions calls into question the validity of the model, decay. The research on Majorana fermions in the past but, as has been subsequently realised, in the presence few years, however, have gained momentum in the com- of strong spin orbit coupling it is possible for electrons pletely different field of condensed matter physics. Arti- to be approximated as spinless in the presence of spin- ficially engineered low-dimensional nanostructures which orbit coupling as well as a Zeeman field [9]. -
$ Z $ Boson Mediated Dark Matter Beyond the Effective Theory
MCTP-16-27 FERMILAB-PUB-16-534-T Z boson mediated dark matter beyond the effective theory John Kearney Theoretical Physics Department, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL 60510 USA Nicholas Orlofsky and Aaron Pierce Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics (MCTP) Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 (Dated: April 11, 2017) Direct detection bounds are beginning to constrain a very simple model of weakly interacting dark matter|a Majorana fermion with a coupling to the Z boson. In a particularly straightforward gauge-invariant realization, this coupling is introduced via a higher-dimensional operator. While attractive in its simplicity, this model generically induces a large ρ parameter. An ultraviolet completion that avoids an overly large contribution to ρ is the singlet-doublet model. We revisit this model, focusing on the Higgs blind spot region of parameter space where spin-independent interactions are absent. This model successfully reproduces dark matter with direct detection mediated by the Z boson, but whose cosmology may depend on additional couplings and states. Future direct detection experiments should effectively probe a significant portion of this parameter space, aside from a small coannihilating region. As such, Z-mediated thermal dark matter as realized in the singlet-doublet model represents an interesting target for future searches. I. INTRODUCTION Z, and their spin-dependent (SD) couplings, which at tree level arise from exchange of the Z. The latest bounds on SI scattering arise from PandaX Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) re- [1] and LUX [2]. DM that interacts with the Z main an attractive thermal dark matter (DM) can- boson via vectorial couplings, g (¯χγ χ)Zµ, is very didate. -
Baryogen, a Monte Carlo Generator for Sphaleron-Like Transitions in Proton-Proton Collisions
Prepared for submission to JHEP BaryoGEN, a Monte Carlo Generator for Sphaleron-Like Transitions in Proton-Proton Collisions Cameron Bravo1 and Jay Hauser Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1547, USA E-mail: [email protected] Abstract: Sphaleron and instanton solutions of the Standard Model provide violation of baryon and lepton numbers and could lead to spectacular events at the LHC or future colliders. Certain models of new physics can also lead to sphaleron-like vacuum transitions. This nonperturbative physics could be relevant to the generation of the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe. We have developed BaryoGEN, an event generator that facili- tates the exploration of sphaleron-like transitions in proton-proton collisions with minimal assumptions. BaryoGEN outputs standard Les Houches Event files that can be processed by PYTHIA, and the code is publicly available. We also discuss various approaches to experimental searches for such transitions in proton-proton collisions. arXiv:1805.02786v3 [hep-ph] 21 Jul 2018 1Corresponding author. Contents 1 Introduction1 2 Physics Content2 2.1 Fermionic Content of Transitions2 2.2 Incoming Partons and Cancellations3 2.3 Color Flow5 2.4 Simulation Results6 3 Using the Generator6 4 Conclusions8 1 Introduction The class of solutions of gauge field theories to which the sphaleron belongs were first proposed in 1976 by ’t Hooft [1]. These solutions are nonperturbative, so the cross-sections for processes mediated by the sphaleron cannot be calculated perturbatively, e.g. by using Feynman diagrams. The solutions are high-energy but are unstable and decay immediately. The electroweak (EW) sphaleron was first described in 1984 [2]. -
Gravitino Dark Matter
GRAVITINO DARK MATTER Wilfried Buchm¨uller DESY, Hamburg LAUNCH09, Nov. 2009, MPK Heidelberg Why Gravitino Dark Matter? Supergravity predicts the gravitino, analog of W and Z bosons in electroweak theory; may be LSP, natural DM candidate: m < 1keV, hot DM, (Pagels, Primack ’81) • 3/2 1keV < m3/2 < 15keV, warm DM, (Gorbunov, Khmelnitsky, Rubakov ’08) • ∼ ∼ 100keV < m < 10MeV, cold DM, gauge mediation and thermal • 3/2 leptogenesis∼ (Fuji, Ibe,∼ Yanagida ’03); recently proven to be correct by F-theory (Heckman, Tavanfar, Vafa ’08) 10GeV < m < 1TeV, cold DM, gaugino/gravity mediation and • 3/2 thermal leptogenesis∼ ∼ (Bolz, WB, Pl¨umacher ’98) Baryogenesis, (gravitino) DM and primordial nucleosynthesis (BBN) strongly correlated in cosmological history. 1 Gravitino Problem Thermally produced gravitino number density grows with reheating temperature after inflation (Khlopov, Linde ’83; Ellis, Kim, Nanopoulos ’84;...), n3/2 α3 2 TR. nγ ∝ Mp For unstable gravitinos, nucleosynthesis implies stringent upper bound on reheating temperature TR (Kawasaki, Kohri, Moroi ’05; ...), T < (1) 105 GeV, R O × hence standard mSUGRA with neutralino LSP incompatible with baryogenesis via thermal leptogenesis where T 1010 GeV !! R ∼ Possible way out: Gravitino LSP, explains dark matter! 2 Gravitino Virtue Can one understand the amount of dark matter, ΩDM 0.23, with Ω = ρ /ρ , if gravitinos are dominant component, i.e. Ω≃ Ω ? DM DM c DM ≃ 3/2 Production mechanisms: (i) WIMP decays, i.e., ‘Super-WIMPs’ (Covi, Kim, Roszkowski ’99; Feng, Rajaraman, Takayama ’03), m3/2 Ω3/2 = ΩNLSP , mNLSP independent of initial temperature TR (!), but inconsistent with BBN constraints; (ii) Thermal production, from 2 2 QCD processes, → 2 TR 100GeV mg˜(µ) Ω3/2h 0.5 10 . -
Super-Higgs in Superspace
Article Super-Higgs in Superspace Gianni Tallarita 1,* and Moritz McGarrie 2 1 Departamento de Ciencias, Facultad de Artes Liberales, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago 7941169, Chile 2 Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Notkestrasse 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany; [email protected] * Correspondence: [email protected] or [email protected] Received: 1 April 2019; Accepted: 10 June 2019; Published: 14 June 2019 Abstract: We determine the effective gravitational couplings in superspace whose components reproduce the supergravity Higgs effect for the constrained Goldstino multiplet. It reproduces the known Gravitino sector while constraining the off-shell completion. We show that these couplings arise by computing them as quantum corrections. This may be useful for phenomenological studies and model-building. We give an example of its application to multiple Goldstini. Keywords: supersymmetry; Goldstino; superspace 1. Introduction The spontaneous breakdown of global supersymmetry generates a massless Goldstino [1,2], which is well described by the Akulov-Volkov (A-V) effective action [3]. When supersymmetry is made local, the Gravitino “eats” the Goldstino of the A-V action to become massive: The super-Higgs mechanism [4,5]. In terms of superfields, the constrained Goldstino multiplet FNL [6–12] is equivalent to the A-V formulation (see also [13–17]). It is, therefore, natural to extend the description of supergravity with this multiplet, in superspace, to one that can reproduce the super-Higgs mechanism. In this paper we address two issues—first we demonstrate how the Gravitino, Goldstino, and multiple Goldstini obtain a mass. Secondly, by using the Spurion analysis, we write down the most minimal set of new terms in superspace that incorporate both supergravity and the Goldstino multiplet in order to reproduce the super-Higgs mechanism of [5,18] at lowest order in M¯ Pl. -
Neutrino CPV Phase and Leptogenesis
Neutrino CPV phase and Leptogenesis Andrew, Brandon, Erika, Larry, Varuna, Wing The Question How can the CP-violating phase in the neutrino mixing matrix, delta, possibly be related to leptogenesis? Can you make a model where this is transparent and has testable predictions? 2 What is it? ● Experiments have observed an asymmetry in the number of baryons versus anti-baryons in the universe ● Leptogenesis – The process of generating baryogenesis through lepton asymmetry ● This lepton asymmetry is converted into a baryon asymmetry by the sphaleron process ● Leptogenesis is a mechanism that attempts to explain the observed asymmetry – Many different models of Leptogenesis exist – We only consider Leptogenesis with Type I Seesaw 3 Sakharov Conditions Three conditions for dynamically generated baryon asymmetry: I. Baryon (and lepton) Number Violation II. C and CP Symmetry Violation III. Interactions out of Thermal Equilibrium 4 Seesaw Mechanism ● Introduce three right-handed heavy neutrinos, NRi with the following Lagrangian: ● The Majorana mass matrix M is diagonal, the Yukawa matrix may be complex, and the Higgs will give a Majorana mass term to the neutrinos after symmetry breaking ● This gives a mass to the light neutrinos: ● For 0.1 eV light neutrinos and taking λ at the GeV scale, that gives a heavy mass scale of 1010 GeV 5 Seesaw Mechanism ● Self energy diagram N showing flavor change at high energy νf νf’ ● The interaction can be described by: H ● Self energy diagram at low energy νf νf’ with the heavy fields integrated out ● Creates an effective point interaction that can be described by: 6 Seesaw Mechanism ● Relating the high and low energy interactions, we can write the following: ● Where R is orthogonal but may be complex (Casas-Ibarra parametrization); it reshuffles and re-phases the flavors. -
Printed Here
PHYSICAL REVIEW C VOLUME 55, NUMBER 2 FEBRUARY 1997 Selected Abstracts from Physical Review D Abstracts of papers published in Physical Review D which may be of interest to our readers are printed here. Superlight neutralino as a dark matter particle candidate. V. A. Constraints on big bang nucleosynthesis ~BBN! and on cosmo- Bednyakov, Max-Planck-Institut fu¨r Kernphysik, Postfach 103980, logical parameters from conflicting deuterium observations in dif- D-69029, Heidelberg, Germany and Laboratory of Nuclear Prob- ferent high redshift QSO systems are discussed. The high deuterium lems, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Moscow region, 141980 observations by Carswell et al., Songaila et al., and Rugers and Dubna, Russia; H. V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, Max-Planck-Institut Hogan are consistent with 4He and 7Li observations and standard fu¨r Kernphysik, Postfach 103980, D-69029, Heidelberg, Germany; BBN (Nn 53! and allows Nn<3.6 at 95% C.L., but are inconsistent S. G. Kovalenko, Max-Planck-Institut fu¨r Kernphysik, Postfach with local observations of D and 3He in the context of conventional 103980, D-69029, Heidelberg, Germany and Laboratory of Nuclear theories of stellar and galactic evolution. In contrast, the low deu- Problems, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Moscow region, terium observations by Tytler, Fan, and Burles and Burles and 141980 Dubna, Russia. ~Received 2 August 1996! Tytler are consistent with the constraints from local galactic obser- We address the question of how light the lightest supersymmetric vations, but require Nn51.960.3 at 68% C.L., excluding standard particle neutralino can be to be a reliable cold dark matter ~CDM! BBN at 99.9% C.L., unless the systematic uncertainties in the 4 particle candidate. -
Gravitino Dark Matter with Constraints from Higgs Boson Mass …
Vol. 44 (2013) ACTA PHYSICA POLONICA B No 11 GRAVITINO DARK MATTER WITH CONSTRAINTS FROM HIGGS BOSON MASS AND SNEUTRINO DECAYS∗ L. Roszkowskiy, S. Trojanowski National Centre for Nuclear Research, Hoża 69, 00-681, Warszawa, Poland K. Turzyński Institute of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw Hoża 69, 00-681, Warszawa, Poland K. Jedamzik Laboratoire de Physique Theorique et Astroparticules, UMR5207-CRNS Université Montpellier II, 34095 Montpellier, France (Received October 21, 2013) We investigate gravitino dark matter produced thermally at high tem- peratures and in decays of a long-lived sneutrino in the framework of the Non-Universal Higgs Model (NUHM). We apply relevant collider and cos- mological bounds. Generally, we find allowed values of the reheating tem- 9 perature TR below 10 GeV, i.e. somewhat smaller than the values needed for thermal leptogenesis, even with a conservative lower bound of 122 GeV on the Higgs boson mass. Requiring mass values closer to 126 GeV implies 7 TR below 10 GeV and the gravitino mass less than 10 GeV. DOI:10.5506/APhysPolB.44.2367 PACS numbers: 14.80.Ly, 14.80.Da, 95.35.+d, 26.35.+c Gravitino as the lightest supersymmetric particle is a well-motivated dark matter (DM) candidate. It is extremely weakly interacting and hence can escape detection in direct searches. Scenarios with gravitino DM can be, however, strongly constrained by the Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN). ∗ Presented at the XXXVII International Conference of Theoretical Physics “Matter to the Deepest” Ustroń, Poland, September 1–6, 2013. y On leave of absence from the University of Sheffield, UK.