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Precision Calculation for Supersymmetric Particle Decays

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-09-08 v1

Abstract

In the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model with conserved R-parity, the decays of the next-to-lightest neutralino into the lightest neutralino and two leptons are always involved in each supersymmetric particle decay chain. In this thesis we calculate one-loop corrections to the two-body decays of the next-to-lightest neutralino into a lepton and a slepton, which again decays into another lepton and the lightest neutralino. We also investigate a scenario where the next-to-lightest neutralino can undergo three-body decays. Not only the branching ratios of leptonic decay modes, but also the dilepton invariant mass distribution, are studied. Its endpoint is often used to reconstruct mass-differences of supersymmetric particles. At one-loop level the branching ratios of these leptonic decays are increased significantly and the shape of dilepton invariant mass distribution is altered by the hard photon emission.

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@article{arxiv.0912.5160,
  title  = {Precision Calculation for Supersymmetric Particle Decays},
  author = {Qingjun Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.5160},
  year   = {2016}
}

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125 pages, Ph.D. Thesis, 2006, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany

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