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Lepton flavor violation in SUSY left-right symmetric theories

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-03-17 v1

Abstract

The seesaw mechanism is the most popular explanation for the smallness of neutrino masses. However, its high scale makes direct tests impossible and only indirect signals at low energies are reachable for collider experiments. One of these indirect links with the high scale is lepton flavor violation (LFV). We discuss LFV decays of sleptons in the context of a SUSY left-right symmetric model that naturally incorporates the seesaw mechanism. This non-minimal embedding of the seesaw leads to observable LFV effects in the right-handed sleptons sector, contrary to minimal models where these are found to be totally negligible. Therefore, LFV observables can be used as a powerful tool to study physics right below the GUT scale.

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@article{arxiv.1010.0799,
  title  = {Lepton flavor violation in SUSY left-right symmetric theories},
  author = {Avelino Vicente},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.0799},
  year   = {2015}
}

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To appear in the proceedings of PASCOS 2010, the 16th International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology, Valencia, Spain