Supersymmetric proton decay revisited

John Ellis; L. Evans; Natsumi Nagata; Keith A. Olive; Liliana Velasco-Sevilla

doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-7872-3

Supersymmetric proton decay revisited

John Ellis, L. Evans^*, Natsumi Nagata, Keith A. Olive, Liliana Velasco-Sevilla

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Encouraged by the advent of a new generation of underground detectors – JUNO, DUNE and Hyper-Kamiokande – that are projected to improve significantly on the present sensitivities to various baryon decay modes, we revisit baryon decay in the minimal supersymmetric SU(5) GUT. We discuss the phenomenological uncertainties associated with hadronic matrix elements and the value of the strong coupling α_s – which are the most important – the weak mixing angle θ_W, quark masses including one-loop renormalization effects, quark mixing and novel GUT phases that are not visible in electroweak interaction processes. We apply our analysis to a variety of CMSSM, super- and sub-GUT scenarios in which soft supersymmetry-breaking parameters are assumed to be universal at, above and below the GUT scale, respectively. In many cases, we find that the next generation of underground detectors should be able to probe models with sparticle masses that are O(10) TeV, beyond the reach of the LHC.

Original language	English
Article number	332
Journal	European Physical Journal C
Volume	80
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-7872-3
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2020

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