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Title: B-meson observables in the maximally CP-violating MSSM with minimal flavor violation

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
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  1. Theory Division, Physics Department, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23 (Switzerland)
  2. Center for Theoretical Physics, School of Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-747 (Korea, Republic of)

Additional sources of CP violation in the MSSM may affect B-meson mixings and decays, even in scenarios with minimal flavor violation (MFV). We formulate the maximally CP-violating and minimally flavor-violating (MCPMFV) variant of the MSSM, which has 19 parameters, including 6 phases that violate CP. We then develop a manifestly flavor-covariant effective Lagrangian formalism for calculating Higgs-mediated flavor-changing-neutral-current (FCNC) observables in the MSSM at large tan{beta}, and analyze within the MCPMFV framework FCNC and other processes involving B mesons. We include a new class of dominant subleading contributions due to nondecoupling effects of the third-generation quarks. We present illustrative numerical results that include effects of the CP-odd MCPMFV parameters on Higgs and sparticle masses, the B{sub s} and B{sub d} mass differences, and on the decays B{sub s}{yields}{mu}{sup +}{mu}{sup -}, B{sub u}{yields}{tau}{nu}, and b{yields}s{gamma}. We use these results to derive illustrative constraints on the MCPMFV parameters imposed by D0, CDF, Belle, and BABAR measurements of B mesons, demonstrating how a potentially observable contribution to the CP asymmetry in the b{yields}s{gamma} decay may arise in the MSSM with MCPMFV.

OSTI ID:
21023955
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 76, Issue 11; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.76.115011; (c) 2007 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English