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Interplay of LFV and slepton mass splittings at the LHC as a probe of the SUSY seesaw

We study the impact of a type-I SUSY seesaw concerning lepton flavour violation (LFV) both at low-energies and at the LHC. The study of the di-lepton invariant mass distribution at the LHC allows to reconstruct some of the masses of the different sparticles involved in a decay chain. In particular,...

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Autores principales: Abada, A, Figueiredo, A J R, Romao, J C, Teixeira, A M
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Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2010
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/1281726
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author Abada, A
Figueiredo, A J R
Romao, J C
Teixeira, A M
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Figueiredo, A J R
Romao, J C
Teixeira, A M
author_sort Abada, A
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description We study the impact of a type-I SUSY seesaw concerning lepton flavour violation (LFV) both at low-energies and at the LHC. The study of the di-lepton invariant mass distribution at the LHC allows to reconstruct some of the masses of the different sparticles involved in a decay chain. In particular, the combination with other observables renders feasible the reconstruction of the masses of the intermediate sleptons involved in $ \chi_2^0\to \tilde \ell \,\ell \to \ell \,\ell\,\chi_1^0$ decays. Slepton mass splittings can be either interpreted as a signal of non-universality in the SUSY soft breaking-terms (signalling a deviation from constrained scenarios as the cMSSM) or as being due to the violation of lepton flavour. In the latter case, in addition to these high-energy processes, one expects further low-energy manifestations of LFV such as radiative and three-body lepton decays. Under the assumption of a type-I seesaw as the source of neutrino masses and mixings, all these LFV observables are related. Working in the framework of the cMSSM extended by three right-handed neutrino superfields, we conduct a systematic analysis addressing the simultaneous implications of the SUSY seesaw for both high- and low-energy lepton flavour violation. We discuss how the confrontation of slepton mass splittings as observed at the LHC and low-energy LFV observables may provide important information about the underlying mechanism of LFV.
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spelling cern-12817262019-09-30T06:29:59Z http://cds.cern.ch/record/1281726 eng Abada, A Figueiredo, A J R Romao, J C Teixeira, A M Interplay of LFV and slepton mass splittings at the LHC as a probe of the SUSY seesaw Particle Physics - Phenomenology We study the impact of a type-I SUSY seesaw concerning lepton flavour violation (LFV) both at low-energies and at the LHC. The study of the di-lepton invariant mass distribution at the LHC allows to reconstruct some of the masses of the different sparticles involved in a decay chain. In particular, the combination with other observables renders feasible the reconstruction of the masses of the intermediate sleptons involved in $ \chi_2^0\to \tilde \ell \,\ell \to \ell \,\ell\,\chi_1^0$ decays. Slepton mass splittings can be either interpreted as a signal of non-universality in the SUSY soft breaking-terms (signalling a deviation from constrained scenarios as the cMSSM) or as being due to the violation of lepton flavour. In the latter case, in addition to these high-energy processes, one expects further low-energy manifestations of LFV such as radiative and three-body lepton decays. Under the assumption of a type-I seesaw as the source of neutrino masses and mixings, all these LFV observables are related. Working in the framework of the cMSSM extended by three right-handed neutrino superfields, we conduct a systematic analysis addressing the simultaneous implications of the SUSY seesaw for both high- and low-energy lepton flavour violation. We discuss how the confrontation of slepton mass splittings as observed at the LHC and low-energy LFV observables may provide important information about the underlying mechanism of LFV. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/237920 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Education Level info:eu-repo/semantics/article http://cds.cern.ch/record/1281726 2010-07-29
spellingShingle Particle Physics - Phenomenology
Abada, A
Figueiredo, A J R
Romao, J C
Teixeira, A M
Interplay of LFV and slepton mass splittings at the LHC as a probe of the SUSY seesaw
title Interplay of LFV and slepton mass splittings at the LHC as a probe of the SUSY seesaw
title_full Interplay of LFV and slepton mass splittings at the LHC as a probe of the SUSY seesaw
title_fullStr Interplay of LFV and slepton mass splittings at the LHC as a probe of the SUSY seesaw
title_full_unstemmed Interplay of LFV and slepton mass splittings at the LHC as a probe of the SUSY seesaw
title_short Interplay of LFV and slepton mass splittings at the LHC as a probe of the SUSY seesaw
title_sort interplay of lfv and slepton mass splittings at the lhc as a probe of the susy seesaw
topic Particle Physics - Phenomenology
url http://cds.cern.ch/record/1281726
http://cds.cern.ch/record/1281726
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