The Supersymmetry Les Houches Accord (SLHA) provides a universal set of conventions for conveying spectral and decay information for supersymmetry analysis problems in high energy physics. Here, we propose extensions of the conventions of the first SLHA to include various generalisations: the minimal supersymmetric standard model with violation of CP, R-parity, and flavour, as well as the simplest next-to-minimal model. IntroductionSupersymmetric (SUSY) extensions of the Standard Model rank among the most promising and well-explored scenarios for New Physics at the TeV scale. Given the long history of supersymmetry and the number of people working in the field, several different conventions for defining supersymmetric theories have been proposed over the years, many of which have come into widespread use. At present, therefore, no unique set of conventions prevails. In principle, this is not a problem. As long as everything is clearly and consistently defined, a translation can always be made between two sets of conventions. However, the proliferation of conventions does have some disadvantages. Results obtained by different authors or computer codes are not always directly comparable. Hence, if author/code A wishes to use the results of author/code B in a calculation, a consistency check of all the relevant conventions and any necessary translations must first be made -a tedious and error-prone task.To deal with this problem, and to create a more transparent situation for non-experts, the original SUSY Les Houches Accord (SLHA1) was proposed [1]. This accord uniquely defines a set of conventions for supersymmetric models together with a common interface between codes. The most essential fact is not what the conventions are in detail (they largely resemble those of [2]), but that they are consistent and unambiguous, hence reducing the problem of translating between conventions to a linear, rather than a factorial, dependence on the number of codes involved. At present, these codes can be categorised roughly as follows (see [3,4] for a review and on-line repository):• Spectrum calculators [5][6][7][8], which calculate the supersymmetric mass and coupling spectrum, assuming some (given or derived) SUSY-breaking terms and a matching to known data on the Standard Model parameters.• Observables calculators [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]; packages which calculate one or more of the following: collider production cross sections (cross section calculators), decay partial widths (decay packages), relic dark matter density (dark matter packages), and indirect/precision observables, such as rare decay branching ratios or Higgs/electroweak observables (constraint packages).• Monte-Carlo event generators [20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28], which calculate cross sections through explicit statistical simulation of high-energy particle collisions. By including resonance decays, parton showering, hadronisation, and underlying-event effects, fully exclusive final states can be studied, and, for instance, ...

We investigate in detail the low-energy spectrum of the R-parity violating minimal supergravity model using the computer program SOFTSUSY. We impose the experimental constraints from the measurement of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, (g − 2)µ, the decay b → sγ as well as the mass bounds from direct searches at colliders, in particular on the Higgs boson and the lightest chargino. We also include a new calculation for the R parity violating contribution to Br(Bs → µ + µ − ). We then focus on cases where the lightest neutralino is not the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP). In this region of parameter space either the lightest scalar tau (stau) or the scalar tau neutrino (tau sneutrino) is the LSP. We suggest four benchmark points with typical spectra and novel collider signatures for detailed phenomenological analysis and simulation by the LHC collaborations.

Publisher's Note: Sneutrino as the lightest supersymmetric particle in B 3 minimal supergravity models and signals at the LHC [Phys. Rev. D 79, 035003 (2009)]

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We consider B 3 minimal supergravity models where we have one lepton number violating L i Q j " D k operator at the grand unification scale. This can alter the supersymmetric mass spectrum leading to a sneutrino as the lightest supersymmetric particle in a large region of parameter space. We take into account the restrictions from neutrino masses, the muon anomalous magnetic moment, b ! s, and other precision measurements. We furthermore investigate existing restrictions from direct searches at LEP, the Tevatron, and the CERN p " p collider. We then give examples for characteristic signatures at the LHC.