Natural Suppression of Proton Decay in Supersymmetric Type III Seesaw Models

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that supersymmetric type III seesaw models can naturally suppress proton decay, avoiding common issues in MSSM extensions and providing a viable framework for neutrino mass explanations.

Contribution

It introduces a realistic supersymmetric type III seesaw model that forbids R-parity violation and suppresses Planck-scale proton decay contributions, enhancing model stability.

Findings

Suppression of proton decay via gauge symmetry in type III seesaw models

Construction of anomaly-free supersymmetric models with suppressed decay channels

Achieving desired suppression levels in left-right symmetric models

Abstract

Supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) has two sources of rapid proton decay: (i) R-parity breaking terms and (ii) higher dimensional Planck induced B-violating terms; its extensions to include neutrino masses via the type I seesaw mechanism need not have the first of these problems due to the existence of B-L as a gauge symmetry but for sure always have the second one. If instead, neutrino masses are explained in a type III seesaw extension of the standard model, an anomaly free gauge symmetry different from B-L is known to exist. In this note, it is shown that a realistic supersymmetric versions of this model can be constructed (MSSM as well as SUSY left-right with type III seesaw) which forbid the R-parity violating couplings of MSSM and suppress Planck scale contributions to proton decay. The degree of suppression of the latter depends on the weak gauge group. For the left-right case, the suppression to the desired level is easily achieved.