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Phys. Rev. D 65, 075009 (2002) [11 pages]

b-τ unification, gμ-2, the bs+γ constraint, and nonuniversalities

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Utpal Chattopadhyay
Department of Theoretical Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Mumbai 400005, India

Pran Nath
Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115

Received 26 October 2001; published 21 March 2002

An analysis is given of the b-τ Yukawa coupling unification in view of the recent result from Brookhaven on gμ-2 and under the constraint of bs+γ. We explore b-τ unification under the above constraints for nonuniversal boundary conditions for soft supersymmetry breaking parameters. We find new regions of the parameter space where a significant negative supersymmetric contribution to the b quark mass can arise and b-τ unification within SU(5) framework can occur with nonuniversal gaugino masses. Specifically, we find that for the case where the gaugino mass matrix transforms like a 24-plet one finds a negative contribution to the b quark mass irrespective of the sign of the Higgs mixing parameter μ when the supersymmetric contribution to gμ-2 is positive. We exhibit regions of the parameter space where b-τ unification occurs for μ>0 satisfying the constraints of bs+γ and gμ-2. The μ<0 case is also explored. The dependence of the accuracy of b-τ unification defined by |λb-λτ|/λτ on the parameter space is also investigated and it is shown that unification with an accuracy of a few percent can be achieved in significant regions of the parameter space. The allowed parameter space is consistent with the naturalness constraints and the corresponding sparticle spectrum is accessible at the CERN Large Hadron Collider.

© 2002 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.65.075009
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.65.075009
PACS:
12.10.Kt, 11.30.Pb