Published April 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

Flavour violation in anomaly mediated supersymmetry breaking

  • 1. DAMTP, CMS, University of Cambridge, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA (United Kingdom)
  • 2. Institut fuer Physik, Technische Universitaet Dortmund, D-44221 Dortmund (Germany)
  • 3. Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool, Peach Street, Liverpool, L69 3BX (United Kingdom)
  • 4. LAPTH, Universite de Savoie, CNRS, 9, Chemin de Bellevue, 74941 Annecy-le-Vieux (France)

Description

We study squark flavour violation in the anomaly mediated supersymmetry broken (AMSB) minimal supersymmetric standard model. Analytical expressions for the three-generational squark mass matrices are derived. We show that the anomaly-induced soft breaking terms have a decreasing amount of squark flavour violation when running from the GUT to the weak scale. Taking into account inter-generational squark mixing, we work out non-trivial constraints from B → Xsγ and Bs → μμ, which complement each other, as well as B → τν decays. We further identify a region of parameter space where the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon and the B → Xsγ branching ratio are simultaneously accommodated. Since anomaly mediation is of the minimal flavour-violating type, the generic flavour predictions for this class of models apply, including a /ckm-induced (and hence small) Bs- B-bar s-mixing phase.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2009/04/088

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Journal Volume
4
Journal Issue
2009
Journal Page Range
p. 088
ISSN
1126-6708