Naturally flavorful supersymmetry at the LHC

Journal Article · Sat Nov 01 04:00:00 EDT 2008 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.78.095011· OSTI ID:21254644

Nomura, Yasunori; Stolarski, Daniel ^[1]

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1. Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States) and Theoretical Physics Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)

The suppression of flavor and CP violation in supersymmetric theories may be due to the mechanism responsible for the structure of the Yukawa couplings. We study model independently the compatibility between low-energy flavor and CP constraints and observability of superparticles at the LHC, assuming a generic correlation between the Yukawa couplings and the supersymmetry breaking parameters. We find that the superpotential operators that generate scalar trilinear interactions are generically problematic. We discuss several ways in which this tension is naturally avoided. In particular, we focus on several frameworks in which the dangerous operators are naturally absent. These frameworks can be combined with many theories of flavor, including those with (flat or warped) extra dimensions, strong dynamics, or flavor symmetries. We show that the resulting theories can avoid all the low-energy constraints while keeping the superparticles light. The intergenerational mass splittings among the sfermions can reflect the structure of the underlying flavor theory, and can be large enough to be measurable at the LHC. Detailed observations of the superparticle spectrum may thus provide new handles on the origin of the flavor structure of the standard model.

• OSTI ID: 21254644
• Journal Information: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Journal Name: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields Journal Issue: 9 Vol. 78; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
CERN LHC
COMPATIBILITY
CORRELATIONS
COUPLING
CP INVARIANCE
FLAVOR MODEL
INTERACTIONS
MASS
POTENTIALS
SIMULATION
SPARTICLES
SPECTRA
STANDARD MODEL
SUPERSYMMETRY
SYMMETRY BREAKING
YUKAWA POTENTIAL