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Vacuum alignment in SUSY A 4 models

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In this note we discuss the vacuum alignment in globally supersymmetric models with spontaneously broken flavour symmetries in the presence of generic soft supersymmetry (SUSY) breaking terms. We show that the inclusion of these soft SUSY breaking terms can give rise to non-vanishing vacuum expectation values (VEVs) for the auxiliary components of the flavon fields. These non-zero VEVs can have an important impact on the phenomenology of this class of models, since they can induce an additional flavour violating contribution to the sfermion soft mass matrix of right-left (RL) type. We carry out an explicit computation in a class of globally SUSY A 4 models predicting tribimaximal mixing in the lepton sector. The flavour symmetry breaking sector is described in terms of flavon and driving supermultiplets. We find non-vanishing VEVs for the auxiliary components of the flavon fields and for the scalar components of the driving fields which are of order m SUSY × 〈φ〉 and m SUSY, respectively. Thereby, m SUSY is the generic soft SUSY breaking scale which is expected to be around 1 TeV and 〈φ〉 is the VEV of scalar components of the flavon fields. Another effect of these VEVs can be the generation of a μ term.

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  1. Dipartimento di Fisica ‘G. Galilei’, Università di Padova and INFN, Sezione di Padova, Via Marzolo 8, I-35131, Padua, Italy

    Ferruccio Feruglio & Luca Merlo

  2. Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati and INFN, Sezione di Trieste, Via Beirut 2-4, I-34014, Trieste, Italy

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Feruglio, F., Hagedorn, C. & Merlo, L. Vacuum alignment in SUSY A 4 models. J. High Energ. Phys. 2010, 84 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2010)084

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