Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2012-03-30
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
38 pages, 17 figures
Scientific paper
We analyze the prospective impact of supersymmetric radiative corrections on tests of charged current universality involving light quarks and leptons. Working within the R-parity conserving Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, we compute the corresponding one-loop corrections that enter the extraction of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element $V_{ud}$ from a comparison of the muon-decay Fermi constant with the vector coupling constant determined from nuclear and neutron $\beta$-decay. We also revisit earlier studies of the corrections to the ratio $R_{e/\mu}$ of pion leptonic decay rates $\Gamma[\pi^+ \to e^+ \nu (\gamma)]$ and $\Gamma[\pi^+ \to \mu^+ \nu (\gamma)]$. In both cases, we observe that the magnitude of the corrections can be on the order of $10^{-3}$. We show that a comparison of the first row CKM unitarity tests with measurements of $R_{e/\mu}$ can provide unique probes of the spectrum of first generation squarks and first and second generation sleptons.
Bauman Sky
Erler Jens
Ramsey-Musolf Michael
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