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Flavor in Supersymmetry: Anarchy versus Structure

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-05-14 v2

Abstract

Future high-precision flavor experiments may discover a pattern of deviations from the standard model predictions for flavor-changing neutral current processes. One of the interesting questions that can be answered then will be whether the flavor structure of the new physics is related to that of the standard model or not. We analyze this aspect of flavor physics within a specific framework: supersymmetric models where the soft breaking terms are dominated by gauge-mediation but get non-negligible contributions from gravity-mediation. We compare the possible patterns of non-minimally flavor-violating effects that arise if the gravity-mediated contributions are anarchical vs. the case that they are structured by a Froggatt-Nielsen symmetry. We show that combining information on flavor and CP violation from meson mixing and electric dipole moments is indicative for the flavor structure of gravity-mediation.

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@article{arxiv.1001.1513,
  title  = {Flavor in Supersymmetry: Anarchy versus Structure},
  author = {Gudrun Hiller and Yonit Hochberg and Yosef Nir},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.1513},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

27 pages, 2 figures. v2: Introduction extended, reference added