Quasi-Degenerate Neutrinos and Lepton Flavour Violation in Supersymmetric Models

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2003-07-31

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0307393v3

Eur.Phys.J. C35 (2004) 365-372

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

13 pages, 4 figures. v3: introduction and discussion improved and references added; version to appear in EPJC

Scientific paper

10.1140/epjc/s2004-01816-3

In supersymmetric (SUSY) models the misalignment between fermion and sfermion families introduces unsuppressed flavor-changing processes. Even if the mass parameters are chosen to give no flavor violation, family dependent radiative corrections make this adjustment not stable. We analyze the rate of l --> l' gamma in SUSY-GUT models with three quasi-degenerate neutrinos and universal scalar masses at the Planck scale. We pay special attention to a recently proposed scenario where the low-energy neutrino mixings are generated from identical quark and lepton mixings at large scales. We show that: (i) To take universal slepton masses at the GUT scale is a very poor approximation, even in no-scale models. (ii) For large neutrino Yukawa couplings the decay mu --> e gamma would be observed in the planned experiment at PSI. (iii) For large values of tanbeta the tau coupling gives important corrections, pushing mu --> e gamma and tau --> mu gamma to accessible rates. In particular, the non-observation of these processes in the near future would exclude the scenario with unification of quark and lepton mixing angles. (iv) The absence of lepton flavor violating decays in upcoming experiments would imply a low value of tanbeta, small neutrino couplings, and large (>~ 250$ GeV) SUSY-breaking masses.

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