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The Beauty of SUSY

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

B physics represents a privileged place to look for supersymmetry (SUSY) through its virtual effects. Here we discuss rare B decays (bsγb \to s \gamma, bsgb \to s g, bsl+lb \to s l^{+} l^{-}) and BBˉB-\bar{B} oscillations in the context of low-energy SUSY. We outline the variety of predictions that arise according to the choice of the SUSY extension ranging from what we call the ``minimal" version of the MSSM to models without flavour universality or with broken R-parity. In particular, we provide a model-independent parameterization of the SUSY FCNC effects which is useful in tackling the problem in generic low-energy SUSY. We show how rare B physics may be complementary to direct SUSY searches at colliders, in particular for what concerns extensions of the most restrictive version of the MSSM.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9609391,
  title  = {The Beauty of SUSY},
  author = {A. Masiero and L. Silvestrini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9609391},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

14 pages, LaTeX, 1 Postscript figure included. Talk given by A. Masiero at BEAUTY96, Rome, Italy, June 1996. To appear in the proceedings