TY - JOUR
T1 - General issues connecting flavor symmetry and supersymmetry
AU - Bilgin, Ersen
AU - Patt, Brian
AU - Tucker-Smith, David
AU - Wilczek, Frank
N1 - Funding Information:
E.B. and D.T.-S. thank Owen Simpson for useful conversations. The work of E.B. and D.T.-S. was supported by a Cottrell College Science Award. This work is supported in part by funds provided by the US Department of Energy (DOE) under cooperative research agreement DE FG02-05 ER41360.
PY - 2006/3/2
Y1 - 2006/3/2
N2 - We motivate and construct supersymmetric theories with continuous flavor symmetry, under which the electroweak Higgs doublets transform non-trivially. Flavor symmetry is spontaneously broken at a large mass scale in a sector of gauge-singlet fields; the light Higgs multiplets naturally emerge as special linear combinations that avoid acquiring the generic large mass. Couplings of the light Higgs doublets to light moduli fields from the singlet sector could lead to important effects in the phenomenology of the Higgs sector.
AB - We motivate and construct supersymmetric theories with continuous flavor symmetry, under which the electroweak Higgs doublets transform non-trivially. Flavor symmetry is spontaneously broken at a large mass scale in a sector of gauge-singlet fields; the light Higgs multiplets naturally emerge as special linear combinations that avoid acquiring the generic large mass. Couplings of the light Higgs doublets to light moduli fields from the singlet sector could lead to important effects in the phenomenology of the Higgs sector.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.physletb.2006.01.011
DO - 10.1016/j.physletb.2006.01.011
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:32344452180
SN - 0370-2693
VL - 634
SP - 69
EP - 73
JO - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
IS - 1
ER -