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Phenomenology of SUSY SU(5) with type I+III seesaw

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We consider a supersymmetric SU(5) model where two neutrino masses are obtained via a mixed type I+ III seesaw mechanism induced by the component fields of a single SU(5) adjoint. We have analyzed the phenomenology of the model paying particular attention to flavour violating processes and dark matter relic density, assuming universal boundary conditions. We have found that, for a seesaw scale larger than 1012÷13 GeV, BR(μ→eγ) is in the reach of the MEG experiment in sizable regions of the parameter space. On the other side, current bounds on it force BR(τ→μγ) to be well below the reach of forthcoming experiments, rendering thus the model disprovable if a positive signal is found. The same bounds still allow for a sizable positive contribution to ϵ K , while the CP violation in the B s mixing turns out to be too small to account for the di-muon anomaly reported by the D0 collaboration. Finally, the regions where the neutralino relic density is within the WMAP bounds can be strongly modified with respect to the constrained MSSM case. In particular, a peculiar coannihilation region, bounded from above, can be realized, which allows us to put an upper bound on the dark matter mass for certain set-ups of the parameters.

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Biggio, C., Calibbi, L. Phenomenology of SUSY SU(5) with type I+III seesaw. J. High Energ. Phys. 2010, 37 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2010)037

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