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Maximal Sfermion Flavor Violation in Super-GUTs

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-11-23 v2

Abstract

We consider supersymmetric grand unified theories with soft supersymmetry-breaking scalar masses m0m_0 specified above the GUT scale (super-GUTs) and patterns of Yukawa couplings motivated by upper limits on flavour-changing interactions beyond the Standard Model. If the scalar masses are smaller than the gaugino masses m1/2m_{1/2}, as is expected in no-scale models, the dominant effects of renormalization between the input scale and the GUT scale are generally expected to be those due to the gauge couplings, which are proportional to m1/2m_{1/2} and generation-independent. In this case, the input scalar masses m0m_0 may violate flavour maximally, a scenario we call MaxSFV, and there is no supersymmetric flavour problem. We illustrate this possibility within various specific super-GUT scenarios that are deformations of no-scale gravity.

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@article{arxiv.1605.01398,
  title  = {Maximal Sfermion Flavor Violation in Super-GUTs},
  author = {John Ellis and Keith Olive and Liliana Velasco-Sevilla},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.01398},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

38 pp, 16 figures. Change of title to describe better the scope of the work, minor comments added, one reference added, matches published version