Implications of supersymmetric models with natural R-parity conservation
Abstract
In the minimal supersymmetric standard model, the conservation of R parity is phenomenologically desirable, but is ad hoc in the sense that it is not required for the internal consistency of the theory. However, if B-L is gauged at very high energies, R parity will be conserved automatically and exactly, provided only that all order parameters carry even integer values of 3(B-L). We propose a minimal extension of the supersymmetric standard model in which R-parity conservation arises naturally in this way. This approach predicts the existence of a very weakly coupled, neutral chiral supermultiplet of particles with electroweak-scale masses and lifetimes which may be cosmologically interesting. Neutrino masses arise via an intermediate-scale seesaw mechanism, and a solution to the μ problem is naturally incorporated. The apparent unification of gauge couplings at high energies is shown to be preserved in this approach. We also discuss a next-to-minimal extension, which predicts a pair of electroweak-scale chiral supermultiplets with electric charge 2.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- August 1996
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.54.2340
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-ph/9602349
- Bibcode:
- 1996PhRvD..54.2340M
- Keywords:
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- 12.60.Jv;
- Supersymmetric models;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- 19 pages, plain TeX, no figures