Measuring Flavor Mixing with Minimal Flavor Violation at the LHC
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2010-02-03 v2
Abstract
The mixing between third and second (or first) generation squarks is very small in supersymmetric models with minimal flavor violation such as gauge-, anomaly- or gaugino-mediation. An opportunity to measure this mixing will arise if the lightest stop is close enough in mass to the lightest neutralino, so that the decays into third generation quarks are kinematically forbidden. We analyze under which circumstances it might become possible to measure at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) the rate of the flavor changing stop decays.
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@article{arxiv.0802.0916,
title = {Measuring Flavor Mixing with Minimal Flavor Violation at the LHC},
author = {Gudrun Hiller and Yosef Nir},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.0916},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
16 pages, 1 figure; power suppression of 4-body stop decay rate corrected; conclusions unchanged