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Long-Lived Superheavy Particles in Dynamical Supersymmetry-Breaking Models in Supergravity

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-09-29 v2 Astrophysics

Abstract

Superheavy particles of masses 10131014GeV\simeq 10^{13}-10^{14} GeV with lifetimes 10101022years\simeq 10^{10}-10^{22} years are very interesting, since their decays may account for the ultra-high energy (UHE) cosmic rays discovered beyond the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cut-off energy E5×1010GeVE \sim 5 \times 10^{10} GeV. We show that the presence of such long-lived superheavy particles is a generic prediction of QCD-like SU(N_c) gauge theories with N_f flavors of quarks and antiquarks and the large number of colors N_c. We construct explicit models based on supersymmetric SU(N_c) gauge theories and show that if the dynamical scale Λ10131014GeV\Lambda \simeq 10^{13}-10^{14} GeV and N_c = 6-10 the lightest composite baryons have the desired masses and lifetimes to explain the UHE cosmic rays. Interesting is that in these models the gaugino condensation necessarily occurs and hence these models may play a role of so-called hidden sector for supersymmetry breaking in supergravity.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9903207,
  title  = {Long-Lived Superheavy Particles in Dynamical Supersymmetry-Breaking Models in Supergravity},
  author = {K. Hamaguchi and K. -I. Izawa and Yasunori Nomura and T. Yanagida},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9903207},
  year   = {2009}
}

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13 pages, Latex