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$R_b$ in supergravity models

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-09-01 v1

Abstract

We compute the supersymmetric contribution to RbΓ(Zbbˉ)/Γ(Zhadrons)R_{b}\equiv \Gamma (Z\to b{\bar b})/\Gamma (Z\to {\rm hadrons}) in a variety of supergravity models. We find Rbsusy\lsim0.0004R^{\rm susy}_b\lsim0.0004, which does not shift significantly the Standard Model prediction (RbSM=0.2162R^{\rm SM}_b=0.2162 for mt=160\GeVm_t=160\GeV). An improvement in experimental precision by a factor of four would be required to be sensitive to such an effect.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9501258,
  title  = {$R_b$ in supergravity models},
  author = {X. Wang and J. Lopez and D. Nanopoulos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9501258},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

5 pages, LaTeX, 1 figure (included).