SEMINAR
Friday,
November 9th - h. 15.00
Auletta A-1
D.
Restrepo (Valencia University)
Phenomenology of bilinear lepton number violation
Abstract
A straightforward Supersymmetrization
of the Standard Model results in a phenomenologically inconsistent theory
in which Baryon and Lepton numbers are violated by
dimension 4 operators.
Suitable extensions of the
Standard Model gauge symmetries can provide additional constraints on the
allowed operators, in such a way that R-parity conservation arises
in a
natural way as an accidental
symmetry.
In this framework, only
Lepton number is mildly violated by super-renormalizable terms, allowing
for small neutrino Majorana masses. After introducing the theoretical framework
for Supersymmetric Models
without R-parity and without Lepton number, I will discuss some phenomenological
relations between the parameters that give rise to neutrino masses and
mixings, and certain lepton number violating decays of the stop (the superpartner
of the top-quark) that would constitute an unmistakeable signature for
these models.
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