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What is the Natural Size of Supersymmetric $CP$ Violation?

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

It is well known that if phases and masses in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) are allowed to have general values, the resulting neutron EDM (dnd_n) exceeds the experimental upper limit by about 10310^3. We assume that the needed suppression is not due to a fine-tuning of phases or masses, and ask what natural size of CPCP violation (CPV) results. We show that (1) the phase of one of the superpotential parameters, μ\mu, does not contribute to any CPV in the MSSM and so is not constrained by \dn; (2) the MSSM contribution to dnd_n is tiny, just coming from the CKM phase; (3) the phases in the MSSM cannot be used to generate a baryon asymmetry at the weak scale, given our assumptions; and (4) in non-minimal SUSY models, an effective phase can enter at one loop giving dn1026d_n \sim 10^{-26}\ecm, de1027d_e \sim 10^{-27}\ecm, and allowing a baryon asymmetry to be generated at the weak scale, without fine-tunings. Our results could be evaded by a SUSY breaking mechanism which produced phases for the SUSY breaking parameters that somehow were naturally of order 10310^{-3}.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9302282,
  title  = {What is the Natural Size of Supersymmetric $CP$ Violation?},
  author = {Robert Garisto and Gordy Kane},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9302282},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

13pp (no figs), REVTEX (LATEX), TRI-PP-93-1