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Nonanomalous Discrete R-Symmetry and Light Gravitino

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-10 v2

Abstract

We discuss nonanomalous R-symmetry in the supersymmetric grand unified theories. In particular, we explore anomaly-free solutions predicting the gravitino mass in the range of 103eV\lsimm3/2\lsim1TeV10^{-3} eV \lsim m_{3/2} \lsim 1 TeV when the μ\mu-parameter is fixed to be μ1TeV\mu \simeq 1 TeV. In the minimal SU(5) GUT, we have shown that μ1TeV\mu \simeq 1 TeV is obtained only if the gravitino is ultralight with mass m3/2103eVm_{3/2} \sim 10^{-3} eV. If extra fields 55{\bf 5}\oplus{\bf 5^*} or 1010{\bf 10}\oplus{\bf 10^*} are introduced, many solutions predicting m3/2\gsim103eVm_{3/2} \gsim 10^{-3} eV are found. The R-parity is violated due to the vacuum expectation value of the superpotential, but it is controlled by the discrete R-symmetry. We find that the R-parity violating couplings are naturally suppressed much below the experimental bounds for some charge assignments. These charge assignments predict light gravitino with masses of order O(103eV){\cal O}(10^{-3} eV)--O(1MeV){\cal O}(1 MeV). These discrete R-symmetries can be considered as solutions to the μ\mu-problem in low energy supersymmetry breaking models such as the gauge mediation.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0302163,
  title  = {Nonanomalous Discrete R-Symmetry and Light Gravitino},
  author = {K. Hamaguchi and Nobuhito Maru},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0302163},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

20 pages, no figure. v2: minor corrections, references added, "Note Added" in Summary added