The sfermion-mass spectrum of the MSSM at the one-loop level

The sfermion-mass spectrum of the minimal supersymmetric standard model is investigated at the one-loop level. An on-shell scheme has been specified for renormalization of the basic breaking parameters of the sfermionic sector. Owing to SU(2)-invariance, the soft-breaking mass parameters of the left-chiral scalar fermions of each isospin doublet are identical. Thus, one of the sfermion masses of each doublet can be expressed in terms of the other masses and receives a mass shift at the one-loop level with respect to the lowest-order value, which can be of O(10 GeV). Both strong and electroweak contributions have been calculated for scalar quarks and leptons.Received: 26 June 2003, Revised: 24 September 2003, Published online: 7 November 2003