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Proton Decay at M_(pl) and the Scale of SUSY-Breaking

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arxiv 1308.0274 v2 pith:QG7POHWO submitted 2013-08-01 hep-ph

Proton Decay at M_(pl) and the Scale of SUSY-Breaking

classification hep-ph
keywords flavordecayprotonstructureorderscalescalessusy
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It is sometimes argued that a virtue of pushing the supersymmetry breaking scale above 1 PeV is that no particular flavor structure is required in the soft sector in order to evade bounds on flavor-changing neutral currents. However, without flavor structure, suppressing generic Planck-suppressed contributions to proton decay requires even higher SUSY scales, of order $10^{11}$ ($10^9$) GeV for degenerate (mini-split) gauginos and scalars. With flavor structure, the question of whether proton decay or flavor symmetries are more constraining is model-dependent, but it straightforward to find simple models where both constraints are satisfied for much lower SUSY scales.

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