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On SUSY inspired minimal lepton number violation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v3

Abstract

A minimal lepton number violation (LNV) is proposed which could naturally appear in SUSY theories, if Yukawa and LNV couplings had a common origin. According to this idea properly implemented into MSSM with an additional abelian flavor symmetry the prototype LNV appears due to a mixing of leptons with superheavy Higgs doublet mediating Yukawa couplings. As a result, all significant physical manifestations of LNV reduce to those of the effective trilinear couplings LLEˉLL\bar{E} and LQDˉLQ\bar{D} aligned, by size and orientation in a flavor space, with the down fermion (charged lepton and down quark) effective Yukawa couplings, while the effective bilinear terms appear generically suppressed relative to an ordinary μ\mu -term of MSSM. Detailed phenomenology of the model related to the flavor-changing processes both in quark and lepton sectors, radiatively induced neutrino masses and decays of the LSP is presented. Remarkably, the model can straightforwardly be extended to a Grand Unified framework and an explicit example with SU(7) GUT is thoroughly discussed.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9908451,
  title  = {On SUSY inspired minimal lepton number violation},
  author = {J. L. Chkareuli and I. G. Gogoladze and M. G. Green and D. E. Hutchcroft and A. B. Kobakhidze},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9908451},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

31 pages, latex, no figures. Globally revised version with new exposition of results presented (to appear in Phys. Rev. D)

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