Recent work in the phenomenology of supersymmetry
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Electron to Selectron Pair Conversion in a SUSY bubble
L. Clavelli and Irina Perevalova, hep-ph/0409194
In the standard model, energy release in dense stars is severely
restricted by the Pauli exclusion principle. However, if, in regions
of high fermion degeneracy, there is a phase transition to a state of
exact supersymmetry (SUSY), fermion to sfermion pair conversion
followed by radiative transitions to the Bose ground state could
lead to a highly collimated gamma ray burst.
A Supersymmetric Model of Gamma Ray Bursts
L. Clavelli and G. Karatheodoris, hep-ph/0403227
We propose a model in which a star subject to a high level of
fermion degeneracy undergoes a phase transition to a supersymmetric
state.
R Parity Violating Decays of the Gluino
L. Clavelli and H. Stremnitzer, hep-ph/0308285
Physics Letters B576, 184, 2003
Quarkonium Polarization in J/Psi Decay
L. Clavelli, P.W. Coulter, and T. Gajdosik
Physics Letters B526, 360, 2002
Parity and Time Reversal in J/Psi Decay
L. Clavelli, T. Gajdosik, and I. Perevalova
Physics Letters B523, 249, 2001
With the prospect of large numbers of J/Psi decay events becoming available in the near future, it is interesting to search for symmetry violating effects as
probes of new physics and as tests of the standard model. J/Psi decay events could provide the first observation of weak effects in otherwise strongly decaying particles.