Arbey AUniversité de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon, CNRS, UMR 5574, 69561 Saint-Genis Laval Cedex, France ; Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Lyon, France ; Theory Division, CERN, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland.
Ellis JTheory Division, CERN, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland ; Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology Group, Department of Physics, King's College London, London, WC2R 2LS UK.
Godbole RMCentre for High Energy Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012 India.
Mahmoudi FUniversité de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon, CNRS, UMR 5574, 69561 Saint-Genis Laval Cedex, France ; Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Lyon, France ; Theory Division, CERN, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland ; Institut Universitaire de France, 103 boulevard Saint-Michel, 75005 Paris, France.
2015-04-04
Published in:
The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields. - 2015
English
We explore the prospects for observing CP violation in the minimal supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model (MSSM) with six CP-violating parameters, three gaugino mass phases and three phases in trilinear soft supersymmetry-breaking parameters, using the CPsuperH code combined with a geometric approach to maximise CP-violating observables subject to the experimental upper bounds on electric dipole moments. We also implement CP-conserving constraints from Higgs physics, flavour physics and the upper limits on the cosmological dark matter density and spin-independent scattering. We study possible values of observables within the constrained MSSM (CMSSM), the non-universal Higgs model (NUHM), the CPX scenario and a variant of the phenomenological MSSM (pMSSM). We find values of the CP-violating asymmetry [Formula: see text] in [Formula: see text] decay that may be as large as 3 %, so future measurements of [Formula: see text] may provide independent information about CP violation in the MSSM. We find that CP-violating MSSM contributions to the [Formula: see text] meson mass mixing term [Formula: see text] are in general below the present upper limit, which is dominated by theoretical uncertainties. If these could be reduced, [Formula: see text] could also provide an interesting and complementary constraint on the six CP-violating MSSM phases, enabling them all to be determined experimentally, in principle. We also find that CP violation in the [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] couplings can be quite large, and so may offer interesting prospects for future [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] colliders.