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Title: Supersymmetric model with Dirac neutrino masses

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
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  1. Particle Theory Group, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187 (United States)
  2. Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 (United States)

New models have recently been proposed in which a second Higgs doublet couples only to the lepton doublets and right-handed neutrinos, yielding Dirac neutrino masses. The vacuum value of this second 'nu-Higgs' doublet is made very small by means of a very softly-broken Z{sub 2} or U(1) symmetry. The latter is technically natural and avoids fine-tuning and very light scalars. We consider a supersymmetric version of this model, in which two additional doublets are added to the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM). If kinematically allowed, the decay of the heavy MSSM scalar into charged nu-Higgs scalars will yield dilepton events which can be separated from the W-pair background. In addition, the nu-Higgsinos can lead to very dramatic tetralepton, pentalepton, and hexalepton events which have negligible background and can be detected at the LHC and the Tevatron.

OSTI ID:
21409830
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 81, Issue 5; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.053006; (c) 2010 The American Physical Society; ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English