English

The $b\to s\gamma\gamma$ transition in softly broken supersymmetry

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-30 v3

Abstract

We study the effect of supersymmetric contributions to the effective quark transition bsγγb\to s\gamma\gamma, including leading order QCD effects. We apply the discussion to the decay BsγγB_s\to\gamma\gamma. Even though one-particle irreducible contributions could play a role, numerical cancelations make the amplitude for the two-photon emission strongly correlated to the bsγb\to s\gamma amplitude which is sharply constrained by experiment. A quite general statement follows: as long as non-standard physics effects appear only in the matching of the Wilson coefficients of the standard effective operator basis, the deviations from the standard model expectations of the decay rates induced by bsγγb\to s\gamma\gamma are bound to follow closely the corresponding deviations on bsγb\to s\gamma. Effects of new physics are therefore bound to be small.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9709330,
  title  = {The $b\to s\gamma\gamma$ transition in softly broken supersymmetry},
  author = {S. Bertolini and J. Matias},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9709330},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Latex2e, RevTex, 22 pages, 8 eps figures, comments and references added