R-parity Violating Supersymmetry at IceCube
Abstract
The presence of -parity violating (RPV) supersymmetric interactions involving high-energy neutrinos can lead to resonant production of TeV-scale squarks inside large-volume neutrino detectors. Using the ultra-high energy neutrino events observed recently at the IceCube, with the fact that for a given power-law flux of astrophysical neutrinos, there is no statistically significant deviation in the current data from the Standard Model expectations, we derive robust upper limits on the RPV couplings as a function of the resonantly-produced squark mass, independent of the other unknown model parameters, as long as the squarks decay dominantly to 2-body final states involving leptons and quarks through the RPV couplings. With more statistics, we expect these limits to be comparable/complementary to the existing limits from direct collider searches and other low-energy processes.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1605.09743,
title = {R-parity Violating Supersymmetry at IceCube},
author = {P. S. Bhupal Dev and Dilip Kumar Ghosh and Werner Rodejohann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.09743},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
10 pages, 4 figures; minor changes, version to appear in Phys. Lett. B