Standard model and supersymmetric flavor puzzles at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

Jonathan L. Feng, Christopher G. Lester, Yosef Nir, and Yael Shadmi
Phys. Rev. D 77, 076002 – Published 2 April 2008

Abstract

Can the Large Hadron Collider explain the masses and mixings of the known fermions? A promising possibility is that these masses and mixings are determined by flavor symmetries that also govern new particles that will appear at the LHC. We consider well-motivated examples in supersymmetry with both gravity and gauge mediation. Contrary to spreading belief, new physics need not be minimally flavor violating. We build nonminimally flavor violating models that successfully explain all known lepton masses and mixings, but span a wide range in their predictions for slepton flavor violation. In natural and favorable cases, these models have metastable sleptons and are characterized by fully reconstructible events. We outline many flavor measurements that are then possible and describe their prospects for resolving both the standard model and new physics flavor puzzles at the Large Hadron Collider.

  • Received 24 December 2007

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.77.076002

©2008 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Jonathan L. Feng1, Christopher G. Lester2, Yosef Nir3, and Yael Shadmi4

  • 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA
  • 2Cavendish Laboratory, J. J. Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, United Kingdom
  • 3Department of Particle Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
  • 4Physics Department, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel

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Vol. 77, Iss. 7 — 1 April 2008

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