R-parity Violation and General Soft Supersymmetry Breaking

Abstract

We consider the most general class possible of soft supersymmetry breaking terms that can be added to the MSSM, with and without R-parity violation, consistent with the sole requirement that no quadratic divergences are induced. We renormalise the resulting theory through one loop and give an example of how a previously ignored term might affect the sparticle spectrum.

Comments: 11 pages, 1 figure. Plain TeX, uses Harvmac (Big) and epsf. Added references and typo corrected (v2)