Published November 23, 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

New two-loop contributions to hadronic EDMs in the MSSM

  • 1. ICRR, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa 277-8582 (Japan)
  • 2. Department of Physics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, 32000 Haifa (Israel)
  • 3. INFN, Sezione di Roma II and Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Roma 'Tor Vergata', I-00133 Rome (Italy)

Description

Flavor-changing terms with CP-violating phases in the quark sector may contribute to the hadronic electric dipole moments (EDMs). However, within the Standard Model (SM), the source of CP violation comes from the unique CKM phase, and it turns out that the EDMs are strongly suppressed. This implies that the EDMs are very sensitive to non-minimal flavor violation structures of theories beyond the SM. In this Letter, we discuss the quark EDMs and CEDMs (chromoelectric dipole moments) in the MSSM with general flavor-changing terms in the squark mass matrices. In particular, the charged-Higgs mediated contributions to the down-quark EDM and CEDM are evaluated at two-loop level. We point out that these two-loop contributions may dominate over the one-loop induced gluino or higgsino contributions even when the squark and gluino masses are around few TeV and tanβ is moderate

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2006.07.073;
arXiv
arXiv:hep-ph/0606322v1;
PII
S0370-2693(06)01131-2;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
642
Journal Issue
5-6
Journal Page Range
p. 510-517
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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Copyright (c) 2006 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.