Published May 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

Refining the predictions of supersymmetric CP-violating models: A top-down approach

  • 1. University of Athens, Physics Department, Nuclear and Particle Physics Section, GR-15771 Athens (Greece)
  • 2. University of Patras, Department of Physics, GR-26500 Patras (Greece)

Description

We explore in detail the consequences of the CP-violating phases residing in the supersymmetric and soft SUSY breaking parameters in the approximation that family flavour mixings are ignored. We allow for non-universal boundary conditions and in such a consideration the model is described by twelve independent CP-violating phases and one angle which misaligns the vacuum expectation values (VEVs) of the Higgs scalars. We run two-loop renormalization group equations (RGEs), for all parameters involved, including phases, and we properly treat the minimization conditions using the one-loop effective potential with CP-violating phases included. We show that the two-loop running of phases may induce sizable effects for the electric dipole moments (EDMs) that are absent in the one-loop RGE analysis. Also important corrections to the EDMs are induced by the Higgs VEVs misalignment angle which are sizable in the large tan β region. Scanning the available parameter space we seek regions compatible with accelerator and cosmological data with emphasis on rapid neutralino annihilations through a Higgs resonance. It is shown that large CP-violating phases, as required in Baryogenesis scenarios, can be tuned to obtain agreement with WMAP3 cold dark matter constraints, EDMs and all available accelerator data, in extended regions of the parameter space which may be accessible to LHC.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2008/05/026

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Journal Volume
05
Journal Issue
2008
Journal Page Range
p. 026
ISSN
1126-6708