Supersymmetric sphaleron configurations as the origin of the perplexing ANITA events

Anchordoqui, Luis A.; Antoniadis, Ignatios (2019). Supersymmetric sphaleron configurations as the origin of the perplexing ANITA events. Physics letters. B, 790, pp. 578-582. Elsevier 10.1016/j.physletb.2019.02.003

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The ANITA experiment has observed two air shower events with energy ~500 PeV emerging from the Earth with exit angles of ~30°. We explain ANITA events as arising from neutrino-induced supersymmetric sphaleron transitions. These high-multiplicity configurations could contain a large number of long-lived supersymmetric fermions, which can traverse the Earth and decay in the atmosphere to initiate upward-pointing air showers at large angles above the horizon. We comment on the sensitivity of new generation LHC detectors, designed to searching for displaced decays of beyond standard model long-lived particles, to test our model.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Theoretical Physics

UniBE Contributor:

Antoniadis, Ignatios

Subjects:

500 Science > 530 Physics

ISSN:

0370-2693

Publisher:

Elsevier

Language:

English

Submitter:

Esther Fiechter

Date Deposited:

14 May 2019 13:31

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 15:27

Publisher DOI:

10.1016/j.physletb.2019.02.003

ArXiv ID:

1812.01520

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.127966

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/127966

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