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A Realistic Supersymmetric Model with Composite Quarks

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

We describe a realistic, renormalizable, supersymmetric ``quindecuplet'' model in which the top quark, left handed bottom quark, and up-type Higgs boson are composite, with a compositeness scale 13\sim 1-3 TeV. The top-Higgs Yukawa coupling is a dynamically generated strong interaction effect, and is naturally much larger than any other Yukawa coupling. The light quark doublets and right-handed up-type quarks are also composite but at higher energies; the hierarchy of quark masses and mixings is due to a hierarchy in the compositeness scales. Flavor changing neutral currents are naturally suppressed, as is baryon number violation by Planck-scale dimension five operators. The model predicts that the most easily observable effects would be on bb-quark physics and on the ρ\rho parameter. In particular a small negative Δρ=ϵ\Delta\rho=-\epsilon leads to ΔRb>+2ϵ\Delta R_b> +2\epsilon. There are effects on BB meson mixing and on flavor-changing neutral-current bb-quark decays to leptons which might be detectable, but not on bsγb\rightarrow s\gamma. The model also suggests the supersymmetry-breaking mass for the right handed top squark might be considerably larger than that of the left handed top squark.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9607362,
  title  = {A Realistic Supersymmetric Model with Composite Quarks},
  author = {Ann E. Nelson and Matthew J. Strassler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9607362},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

27 pages, uses harvmac.tex, tables.tex

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