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Phys. Rev. D 73, 075010 (2006) [10 pages]

Correlated decays of pair-produced scalar taus

Kaoru Hagiwara1,2 and Kentarou Mawatari1
1Theory Group, KEK, Tsukuba 305-0801, Japan
2Department of Particle and Nuclear Physics, Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Tsukuba 305-0801, Japan


David Rainwater
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA

Tim Stelzer
Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1110 West Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
Received 9 December 2005; published 18 April 2006

We study the quantum mechanical correlation between two identical neutralinos in the decays of minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) scalar tau (stau) pair produced in e+e- annihilation. Generally, the decay products of scalar (spinless) particles are not correlated. We show that a correlation between two neutralinos appears near pair production threshold, due to a finite stau width and mixing of the staus and/or neutralinos, and because the neutralinos are Majorana. Because the correlation is significant only in a specific kinematical configuration, it can be observed only in supersymmetric models where the neutralino momenta can be kinematically reconstructed, such as in models with R-parity violation.

©2006 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.73.075010
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.73.075010
PACS: 14.80.Mz; 12.60.Jv; 13.66.Hk
  • 14.80.Mz
    Axions and other Nambu–Goldstone bosons (Majorons, familons, etc.)
  • 12.60.Jv
    Supersymmetric unified models
  • 13.66.Hk
    Production of non-standard model particles in ee+ interactions
  • YEAR: 2006
KEYWORDS: minimal supersymmetric standard model, sparticles, electron-positron inclusive interactions, conservation laws, discrete symmetries, lepton decay

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