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Supersymmetric Higgs Singlet Effects on B-Meson FCNC Observables at Large tan(beta)

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v3

Abstract

Higgs singlet superfields are usually present in most extensions of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) that address the mu-problem, such as the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM) and the Minimal Nonminimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MNSSM). Employing a gauge- and flavour-covariant effective Lagrangian formalism, we show how the singlet Higgs bosons of such theories can have significant contributions to B-meson flavour-changing neutral current (FCNC) observables for large values of tanβ>50\tan\beta \stackrel{>}{{}_\sim} 50 at the 1-loop level. Illustrative results are presented including effects on the B_s and B_d mass differences and on the rare decay Bsμ+μB_s\to\mu^+\mu^-. In particular, we find that depending on the actual value of the lightest singlet pseudoscalar mass in the NMSSM, the branching ratio for Bsμ+μB_s\to\mu^+\mu^- can be enhanced or even suppressed with respect to the Standard Model prediction by more than one order of magnitude.

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@article{arxiv.0807.4167,
  title  = {Supersymmetric Higgs Singlet Effects on B-Meson FCNC Observables at Large tan(beta)},
  author = {Robert N. Hodgkinson and Apostolos Pilaftsis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.4167},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

28 pages, 8 figures, LaTeX. Minor updates. Version to be published in PRD