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Homeotic Supersymmetry

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-11-17 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

It is commonly believed that unbroken supersymmetry (SUSY) implies that all members of a supermultiplet have the same mass. We demonstrate that this is not true, by exhibiting a simple counterexample. We employ the formalism of homeotic fermions, in a simple model where CPT conjugate fermions have different masses. This model can be supersymmetrized to a hypermultiplet of fields which form a representation of the conventional N=2 SUSY algebra. Nevertheless, CPT conjugate states in this hypermultiplet have different masses. These surprising results do not violate either the CPT theorem nor the Haag-Lopuszanski-Sohnius theorem.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0303238,
  title  = {Homeotic Supersymmetry},
  author = {Gabriela Barenboim and Joseph Lykken},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0303238},
  year   = {2014}
}

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4 pages, revtex

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