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Testing the CP-violating MSSM in stau decays at the LHC and ILC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-09-21 v2

Abstract

We study CP violation in the two-body decay of a scalar tau into a neutralino and a tau, which should be probed at the LHC and ILC. From the normal tau polarization, a CP asymmetry is defined which is sensitive to the CP phases of the trilinear scalar coupling parameter AτA_\tau, the gaugino mass parameter M1M_1, and the higgsino mass parameter μ\mu in the stau-neutralino sector of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. Asymmetries of more than 70% are obtained in scenarios with strong stau mixing. As a result, detectable CP asymmetries in stau decays at the LHC are found, motivating further detailed experimental studies for probing the SUSY CP phases.

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@article{arxiv.1011.2449,
  title  = {Testing the CP-violating MSSM in stau decays at the LHC and ILC},
  author = {Herbi Dreiner and Olaf Kittel and Suchita Kulkarni and Anja Marold},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.2449},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

14 pages, 7 figures, added references, corrected typos, revised figs.5b and 6a, physics unchanged