title: Lorentz violation in supersymmetric field theories.
abstract: We construct supersymmetric Lorentz violating operators for matter and gauge fields. We show that in the supersymmetric standard model the lowest possible dimension for such operators is five, and therefore they are suppressed by at least one power of an ultraviolet energy scale, providing a possible explanation for the smallness of Lorentz violation and its stability against radiative corrections. Supersymmetric Lorentz noninvariant operators do not lead to modifications of dispersion relations at high energies thereby escaping constraints from astrophysical searches for Lorentz violation.
authors.affiliation: William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
authors.forename: Stefan Groot
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Nibbelink
authors.forename: Maxim
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pospelov