Abstract: | I present two possible new approaches for R-parity violation, both of which could explain why R-parity violating terms are small, and result in potentially new supersymmetric phenomenology at the LHC. The first direction is to exploit the fact that the R-parity violating terms also break the flavor symmetries of the SM, thus it is natural to assume that the R-parity violating terms are proportional to the ordinary Yukawa couplings. This results in a predictive framework that is not yet strongly constrained by current LHC data. The second direction is to assume that R-parity is violated in a hidden sector and mediated to the SM fields similarly to SUSY breaking. This results in a framework where even the leading R-parity violating operators are novel, and can lead to decays previously not present even in R-parity violating versions of the MSSM.
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