Anomaly mediated supersymmetry breaking and its test in linear colliders

Abstract

Signatures of anomaly mediated supersymmetry breaking in linear colliders are briefly reviewed after presenting an outline of the theoretical framework. A unique and distinct feature of a large class of models of this type is a winolike chargino which is very closely degenerate in mass with the lightest neutralino. The very slow decay of this chargino results in a heavily ionizing charged track and one soft charged pion with a characteristic momentum distribution, leading to unique signals in linear colliders which are essentially free of background. The determination of chargino and slepton masses from such events is a distinctly interesting possibility.

Comments: 15 pages, LaTex, 4 PS figures, ws-mpla.cls file included. One reference added. To appear as a Brief Review in Modern Physics Letters A