Published March 9, 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

Bino-driven electroweak baryogenesis with highly suppressed electric dipole moments

  • 1. Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 (United States)
  • 2. Department of Physics and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, University of California, 1156 High St., Santa Cruz, CA 95064 (United States)
  • 3. Kellogg Radiation Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125 (United States)

Description

It is conventional wisdom that successful electroweak baryogenesis in the Minimal Supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model (MSSM) is in tension with the non-observation of electric dipole moments (EDMs), since the level of CP-violation responsible for electroweak baryogenesis is believed to generate unavoidably large EDMs. We show that CP-violation in the bino-Higgsino sector of the MSSM can account for successful electroweak baryogenesis without inducing large EDMs. This observation weakens the correlation between electroweak baryogenesis and EDMs, and makes the bino-driven electroweak baryogenesis scenario the least constrained by EDM limits. Taking this observation together with the requirement of a strongly first-order electroweak phase transition, we argue that a bino-driven scenario with a light stop is the most phenomenologically viable MSSM electroweak baryogenesis scenario

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2009.02.004

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2009.02.004;
arXiv
arXiv:0811.1987v1;
PII
S0370-2693(09)00149-X;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
673
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 95-100
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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