Published March 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Current and future limits on general flavour violation in b→s transitions in minimal supersymmetry

  • 1. Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Padova, Via F. Marzolo 8, I-35131, Padua (Italy)
  • 2. Department of Physics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8581 (Japan)
  • 3. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S3 7RH (United Kingdom)

Description

We discuss the current and prospective limits that can be placed on supersymmetric contributions to b→s transitions in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model with general flavour mixing amongst the squarks. We consider three processes: B-bar →Xsγ, B-bar s→μ+μ- and B-bar s-Bs mixing, and pay particular attention to the large tan β regime and beyond leading order contributions where the difference between our analysis and previous analyses is most pronounced. We find that even present limits on BR(B-bar s→μ+μ-) and ΔMBs often provide additional constraints on the amount of flavour violation still allowed by BR(B-bar →Xsγ). Limits on supersymmetric and Higgs mass parameters can also be strongly dependent on the flavour violation. In particular, the case μ < 0 can still be allowed, even for light sparticle masses. We discuss how future measurements at the Tevatron, the LHC and elsewhere can improve present limits but also provide unique signatures for the existence of flavour violation

Availability note (English)

Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/1126-6708/2006/i=03/a=044/jhep032006044.pdf or at the Web site for the Journal of High Energy Physics (ISSN 1029-8479) http://www.iop.org/

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Journal Volume
2006
Journal Issue
03
Journal Page Range
p. 044
ISSN
1126-6708