English

Seesaw and Lepton Flavour Violation in SUSY SO(10)

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-05-05 v3

Abstract

That μe,γ\mu \to e, \gamma and τμ,γ\tau \to \mu,\gamma are sensitive probes of SUSY models with a see-saw mechanism is a well accepted fact. Here we propose a `top-down' approach in a general SUSY SO(10) scheme. In this framework, we show that at least one of the neutrino Yukawa couplings is as large as the top Yukawa coupling. This leads to a strong enhancement of these leptonic flavour changing decay rates. We examine two `extreme' cases, where the lepton mixing angles in the neutrino Yukawa couplings are either small (CKM-like) or large (PMNS-like). In these two cases, we quantify the sensitivity of leptonic radiative decays to the SUSY mass spectrum. In the PMNS case, we find that the ongoing experiments at the B-factories can completely probe the spectrum up to gaugino masses of 500 GeV (any tan β\beta). Even in the case of CKM-like mixings, large regions of the parameter space will be probed in the near future, making these two processes leading candidates for indirect SUSY searches.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0209303,
  title  = {Seesaw and Lepton Flavour Violation in SUSY SO(10)},
  author = {Antonio Masiero and Sudhir K. Vempati and Oscar Vives},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0209303},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

22 pages with 2 figures. Figures for \tau -> \mu \gamma decay corrected after typo found in the program. Decay \mu -> e gamma completely unchanged and conclusions basicaly unchanged