11–16 Dec 2008
Valencia, Spain
Europe/Madrid timezone

Spontaneous R-parity violation and the origin of neutrino mass

15 Dec 2008, 18:25
20m
Valencia, Spain

Valencia, Spain

IFIC – Instituto de Física Corpuscular CSIC – Valencia Univ. Edificio Institutos de Investigación Apartado de Correos 22085 E-46071 Valencia SPAIN

Speaker

Mr Avelino Vicente (IFIC - University of Valencia)

Description

We study the phenomenology of supersymmetric models that explain neutrino masses through the spontaneous breaking of R-parity, finding strong correlations between the decays of the lightest neutralino and the neutrino mixing angles. In addition, the existence of a Goldstone boson, usually called majoron (J), completely modifies the phenomenology with respect to the standard picture, inducing large invisible branching ratios and charged lepton decays, like mu -> e J, interesting signals that can be used to constrain the model.

Author

Mr Avelino Vicente (IFIC - University of Valencia)

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