pith. sign in

arxiv: 1605.09743 · v2 · pith:GIZ2P2WAnew · submitted 2016-05-31 · ✦ hep-ph · astro-ph.HE· hep-ex

R-parity Violating Supersymmetry at IceCube

classification ✦ hep-ph astro-ph.HEhep-ex
keywords limitscouplingsicecubeinvolvingmodelneutrinoneutrinosother
0
0 comments X
read the original abstract

The presence of $R$-parity violating (RPV) supersymmetric interactions involving high-energy neutrinos can lead to resonant production of TeV-scale squarks inside large-volume neutrino detectors. Using the ultra-high energy neutrino events observed recently at the IceCube, with the fact that for a given power-law flux of astrophysical neutrinos, there is no statistically significant deviation in the current data from the Standard Model expectations, we derive robust upper limits on the RPV couplings as a function of the resonantly-produced squark mass, independent of the other unknown model parameters, as long as the squarks decay dominantly to 2-body final states involving leptons and quarks through the RPV couplings. With more statistics, we expect these limits to be comparable/complementary to the existing limits from direct collider searches and other low-energy processes.

This paper has not been read by Pith yet.

discussion (0)

Sign in with ORCID, Apple, or X to comment. Anyone can read and Pith papers without signing in.