Radiative Symmetry Breaking and the Top Quark Mass in Local Supersymmetry

Abstract

Exact low energy expressions are derived for the top-squark and higgs masses, taking into account radiative contributions due to a heavy top quark. Their masses are expressed as analytic functions of $m_{1/2}$, $m_{3/2}$, $m_t$ and $sin\beta$. Constraints from the radiative symmetry breaking mechanism are used then, to put lower bounds on the top-quark mass $m_t$. In particular, when $m_{3/2}\gg m_{1/2}$, we obtain the bound $m_t \ge 150sin\beta GeV$, while in the case of $m_{3/2}\equiv 0$, we obtain $m_t \ge 80sin\beta GeV$.