Published February 1999 | Version v1
Journal article

New Two-Loop Contribution to Electric Dipole Moments in Supersymmetric Theories

  • 1. NCTS and Physics Department, National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu 30043, Taiwan, Republic of (China)
  • 2. Fermilab, P.O. Box 500, Batavia , Illinois 60510 (United States)
  • 3. Physics Department, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607-7059 (United States)
  • 4. Theory Division, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23 (Switzerland)

Description

We calculate a new type of two-loop contribution to the electric dipole moments of the electron and neutron in supersymmetric theories. The new contributions are originated from the potential CP violation in the trilinear couplings of the Higgs bosons to the scalar-top or the scalar-bottom quarks. These couplings did not receive stringent constraints directly. The electric dipole moments are induced through a mechanism analogous to that due to Barr and Zee [Phys.thinspthinspRev.thinspthinspLett.thinspthinsp65, 21 (1990)]. We find observable effects for a sizable portion of the parameter space related to the third generation scalar quarks in the minimal supersymmetric standard model which cannot be excluded by earlier considerations. copyright 1999 The American Physical Society

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
82
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
p. 900-903
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO