A spin-1 top quark superpartner

Phys Rev Lett. 2008 Oct 24;101(17):171805. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.171805. Epub 2008 Oct 24.

Abstract

We construct a supersymmetric model where the left-handed top and bottom quarks are mainly the gauginos of a vector supermultiplet and hence their superpartners are spin 1. The right-handed top quark is unified with the Higgs field; the top Yukawa coupling arises from the gaugino coupling.