Soft-breaking correction to hard supersymmetric relations: QCD correction to squark decay

Abstract

Supersymmetric relations between dimensionless couplings receive finite correction at one-loop when supersymmetry is broken softly. We calculate the $O({\alpha }_s)$ correction to the squark decay width to a quark and an electroweak gaugino, which is found to be nonvanishing. Logarithmic correction appears when the gluino is heavy.

Comments: 12 pages plus 5 figures, macros included