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New constraints on supergravity models from $b\to s\gamma$

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-08-25 v1

Abstract

We perform a detailed study of the constraints from bsγb\to s\gamma on a large class of supergravity models, including generic four-parameter supergravity models, the minimal SU(5)SU(5) supergravity model, and SU(5)×U(1)SU(5)\times U(1) supergravity. For each point in the parameter spaces of these models we obtain a range of B(bsγ)B(b\to s\gamma) values which should conservatively account for the unknown next-to-leading-order QCD corrections. We then classify these points into three categories: ``excluded" points have ranges of B(bsγ)B(b\to s\gamma) which do not overlap with the experimentally allowed range, ``preferred" points have B(bsγ)B(b\to s\gamma) ranges which overlap with the Standard Model prediction, and ``Ok" points are neither ``excluded" nor ``preferred" but may become ``excluded" should new CLEO data be consistent with the Standard Model prediction. In {\em all} cases we observe a strong tendency for the ``preferred" points towards one sign of the Higgs mixing parameter μ\mu. For the opposite sign of μ\mu there is an upper bound on tanβ\tan\beta: tanβ\lsim25\tan\beta\lsim25 in general, and tanβ\lsim6\tan\beta\lsim6 for the ``preferred" points. We conclude that new CLEO data will provide a decisive test of supergravity models.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9406427,
  title  = {New constraints on supergravity models from $b\to s\gamma$},
  author = {J. Lopez and D. Nanopoulos and X. Wang and A. Zichichi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9406427},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

26 pages, 11 figures (not included), Latex. Figures are available via anonymous ftp from hplaa02.cern.ch /pub/lopez as uuencoded file BsgFigs.uu. Complete ps file is also available (BsgPaper.ps)