R-parity

R-parity is a concept in particle physics. In the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, baryon number and lepton number are no longer conserved by all of the renormalizable couplings in the theory. Since baryon number and lepton number conservation have been tested very precisely, these couplings need to be very small in order not to be in conflict with experimental data. R-parity is a symmetry acting on the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) fields that forbids these couplings and can be defined as or, equivalently, as where s is spin, B is baryon number, and L is lepton number. All Standard Model particles have R-parity of +1 while supersymmetric particles have R-parity of −1. Note that there are different forms of parity with different effects and principles, one should not confuse this parity with any other parity. With R-parity being preserved, the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) cannot decay. This lightest particle (if it exists) may therefore account for the observed missing mass of the universe that is generally called dark matter. In order to fit observations, it is assumed that this particle has a mass of 100GeV/c2 to 1TeV/c2, is neutral and only interacts through weak interactions and gravitational interactions. It is often called a weakly interacting massive particle or WIMP. Typically the dark matter candidate of the MSSM is a mixture of the electroweak gauginos and Higgsinos and is called a neutralino. In extensions to the MSSM it is possible to have a sneutrino be the dark matter candidate. Another possibility is the gravitino, which only interacts via gravitational interactions and does not require strict R-parity. The renormalizable R-parity violating couplings of the MSSM are violates B by 1 unit The strongest constraint involving this coupling alone is from the non-observation of neutron–antineutron oscillations. violates L by 1 unit The strongest constraint involving this coupling alone is the violation universality of Fermi constant in quark and leptonic charged current decays.

Test of lepton universality in $b \rightarrow s \ell^+ \ell^-$ decays

The first simultaneous test of muon-electron universality using

B^{+}\rightarrow K^{+}\ell^{+}\ell^{-}

and

B^{0}\rightarrow K^{*0}\ell^{+}\ell^{-}

decays is performed, in two ranges of the dilepton invariant-mass squared,

q^{2}

. The analysis uses bea ...

2022

Sleptonic SUSY: from UV framework to IR phenomenology

Test of lepton universality in $b \rightarrow s \ell^+ \ell^-$ decays

Test of lepton universality in $b \rightarrow s \ell^+ \ell^-$ decays

Sleptonic SUSY: from UV framework to IR phenomenology