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Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 171805 (2008) [4 pages]

A Spin-1 Top Quark Superpartner

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Haiying Cai, Hsin-Chia Cheng, and John Terning
Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA

Received 19 June 2008; published 24 October 2008

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We construct a supersymmetric model where the left-handed top and bottom quarks are mainly the gauginos of a vector supermultiplet and hence their superpartners are spin 1. The right-handed top quark is unified with the Higgs field; the top Yukawa coupling arises from the gaugino coupling.

© 2008 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.171805
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.171805
PACS:
14.80.Ly, 12.60.Cn, 12.60.Jv, 14.65.Ha