Supersymmetric Scenarios with Dominant Radiative Neutralino Decay

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  • 31 August 1996
Abstract
The radiative decay of the next-to-lightest neutralino into a lightest neutralino and a photon is analyzed in the MSSM. We find that significant regions of the supersymmetric parameter space with large radiative BR's (up to about 100%) do exist. The radiative channel turns out to be enhanced when the neutralino tree-level decays are suppressed either `kinematically' or `dynamically'. In general, in the regions allowed by LEP data and not characterized by asymptotic values of the SuSy parameters, the radiative enhancement requires tan beta ~= 1 and/or M_1 ~= M_2, and negative values of \mu. We present typical scenarios where these conditions are fulfilled, relaxing the usual relation M_1=(5/3)*tan^2(th_W)*M_2, i.e. gaugino mass unification at the GUT scale. The influence of varying the stop masses and mixing angle when the radiative decay is enhanced is also considered. Some phenomenological consequences of the above picture are discussed.

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