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We present a comprehensive study of pair production and decay of stops, sbottoms, and staus in $e^+ e^-$ annihilation at LEP2. We give numerical predictions within the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model for cross sections and decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-27 A. Bartl , H. Eberl , S. Kraml , W. Majerotto , W. Porod

We investigate the cosmological gravitino problem in gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking models, where the gravitino becomes in general the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP). In order to avoid the overclosure of the stable gravitino,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Asaka , K. Hamaguchi , Koshiro Suzuki

The cosmological {7Li problem consists in explaining why the primordial Li abundance, as predicted by the standard Big Bang nucleosynthesis theory with constraints from WMAP and Planck, is a factor of 3 larger than the Li abundance measured…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-12 Francesca Matteucci , Marta Molero , David S. Aguado , Donatella Romano

Long-lived stau shows up in various supersymmetric models, like gauge-mediated supersymmetry (SUSY) breaking model. At the LHC experiment, long-lived stau is useful not only for the discovery of SUSY signals but also for the study of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-06-27 Takumi Ito , Takeo Moroi

WThe current status of big bang nucleosynthesis is reviewed with an emphasis on the comparison between the observational determination of the light element abundances of \D, \he3, \he4 and \li7 and the predictions from theory. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-15 Keith A. Olive , Sean T. Scully

Primordial nucleosynthesis, or Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN), is one of the three evidences for the Big-Bang model, together with the expansion of the Universe and the Cosmic Microwave Background. There is a good global agreement over a…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-01-18 Alain Coc

We discuss the impact of charged massive particle big bang nucleosynthesis(CBBN) to explore the nature of the reheating of the Universe in the case that a new extremely long-lived charged massive particle(CHAMP) exists. If the mass of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Fumihiro Takayama

The detection of $^6$Li in Spite plateau stars contradicts the standard Big Bang nucleosynthesis prediction, known as the second cosmological lithium problem. We measure the isotopic ratio $^6$Li/$^7$Li in three Spite plateau stars: HD…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-20 E. X. Wang , T. Nordlander , M. Asplund , K. Lind , Y. Zhou , H. Reggiani

We investigate the spallative production of the light elements, Li, Be and B (LiBeB), associated with the evolution of a superbubble (SB) blown by repeated SNe in an OB association. It is shown that if about ten percent of the SN energy can…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Parizot , L. Drury

The gravitino of mass 10-100 GeV is a well motivated scenario in supergravity. If the stau is the next lightest supersymmetry particle, its life-time becomes order of $10^{6-8}$ sec. If it is the case the stau makes a big impact on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-02-14 Koichi Hamaguchi , Tetsuo Hatsuda , Masayasu Kamimura , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

Motivated by the recent measurement of the primeval abundance of deuterium, we re-examine the nuclear inputs to big-bang nucleosynthesis (BBN). Using Monte-Carlo realization of the nuclear cross-section data to directly estimate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Scott Burles , Kenneth M. Nollett , James N. Truran , Michael S. Turner

During big bang nucleosynthesis, any injection of extra neutrons around the time of the $^7$Be formation, i.e. at a temperature of order $T \simeq 50$~keV, can reduce the predicted freeze-out amount of $^7$Be + $^7$Li that otherwise remains…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-29 Alain Coc , Maxim Pospelov , Jean-Philippe Uzan , Elisabeth Vangioni

The "$\mu$ from $\nu$" supersymmetric standard model ($\mu\nu$SSM) can accommodate the newly discovered Higgs-like scalar boson with a mass around 125 GeV. This model provides a solution to the $\mu$-problem and simultaneously reproduces…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-26 Pradipta Ghosh , Daniel E. Lopez-Fogliani , Vasiliki A. Mitsou , Carlos Munoz , Roberto Ruiz de Austri

We consider Big Bang Nucleosynthesis(BBN) with long lived charged massive particles. Before decaying, the long lived massive particles recombines with a light element to form a bound state like a hydrogen atom. We discuss the possible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Kazunori Kohri , Fumihiro Takayama

We have considered a supersymmetric scenario in which the minimal supersymmetric standard model is augmented with a right-chiral neutrino superfield for each generation. Such a scenario can have a lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-11 Sanjoy Biswas

Residual late-time dark matter particle annihilations during and after Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) may alter the predicted cosmological abundances of the light elements. Within the constrained minimal supersymmetric extension of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-29 John Ellis , Brian D. Fields , Feng Luo , Keith A. Olive , Vassilis C. Spanos

Sleptons can easily be found at future linear e+e- colliders if kinematically accessible. Measurements of their masses and decay distributions would then determine MSSM parameters. This paper presents a detailed MC study of the production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Mihoko M. Nojiri , Keisuke Fujii , Toshifumi Tsukamoto

F-theory GUT models favor a relatively narrow range of soft supersymmetry breaking parameters in the MSSM Lagrangian. This leads to the specific predictions that a 10-100 MeV mass gravitino is the LSP, and the NLSP is quasi-stable, with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Jonathan J. Heckman , Jing Shao , Cumrun Vafa

There may be non-thermal cosmic rays during big-bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) epoch (dubbed as BBNCRs). This paper investigated whether such BBNCRs can be the origin of Lithium problem or not. It can be expected that BBNCRs flux will be small…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Ming-ming Kang , Yang Hu , Hong-bo Hu , Shou-hua Zhu

Comparing Big Bang Nucleosynthesis predictions with the light element abundances inferred from observational data, we can obtain the strong constraints on some neutrino properties, e.g. number of neutrino species, mass, lifetime. Recently…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 M. Kawasaki , K. Kohri , Katsuhiko Sato