One loop corrections to the neutralino sector and radiative electroweak breaking in the MSSM

Abstract

We compute one loop radiative corrections to the physical neutralino masses in the MSSM considering the dominant top-stop contributions. We present a numerical renormalization group analysis of the feasibility of the radiative gauge symmetry breaking parametrized by the standard soft supersymmetry breaking terms. Although the above computed effects can be, in principle, large for extreme values of the Yukawa coupling, they do not, in general, exceed a few per cent for most of the parameter space. Therefore tree level constraints imposed on the gluino mass m g ̃ , and on the superpotential parameter μ by LEP1 and CDF experiments, are not upset by the heavy top/stop sector.