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Probing Supersymmetric Flavor Models with $\epsilon'/\epsilon$

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

We discuss the supersymmetric contribution to ϵ/ϵ\epsilon'/\epsilon in various supersymmetric flavor models. We find that in alignment models the supersymmetric contribution could be significant while in heavy squark models it is expected to be small. The situation is particularly interesting in models that solve the flavor problems by either of the above mechanisms and the remaining CP problems by means of approximate CP, that is, all CP violating phases are small. In such models, the standard model contributions cannot account for ϵ/ϵ\epsilon'/\epsilon and a failure of the supersymmetric contributions to do so would exclude the model. In models of alignment and approximate CP, the supersymmetric contributions can account for ϵ/ϵ\epsilon'/\epsilon only if both the supersymmetric model parameters and the hadronic parameters assume rather extreme values. Such models are then strongly disfavored by the ϵ/ϵ\epsilon'/\epsilon measurements. Models of heavy squarks and approximate CP are excluded.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9908382,
  title  = {Probing Supersymmetric Flavor Models with $\epsilon'/\epsilon$},
  author = {G. Eyal and A. Masiero and Y. Nir and L. Silvestrini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9908382},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

16 pages, harvmac. v2: We added a discussion of the intriguing implications that would follow if a recent lattice result is confirmed