Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2002-06-06
Phys.Rev. D66 (2002) 035007
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
20 pages, 3 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.66.035007
We re-examine the possibility that the solution to the supersymmetric flavor problem is related to small mixing angles in gaugino couplings induced by approximate horizontal Abelian symmetries. We prove that, for a large class of models, there is a single viable structure for the down quark mass matrix with four holomorphic zeros. Consequently, we are able to obtain both lower and upper bounds on the supersymmetric mixing angles and predict the contributions to various flavor changing neutral current processes. We find that the most likely signals for alignment are $\Delta m_D$ close to the present bound, significant CP violation in $D^0-\bar{D^0}$ mixing, and shifts of order a few percent in various CP asymmetries in $B^0$ and $B_s$ decays. In contrast, the modifications to radiative B decays, to $\epsilon^\prime/\epsilon$ and to $K\to\pi\nu\bar\nu$ decays are small. We further investigate a new class of alignment models, where supersymmetric contributions to flavor changing processes are suppressed by both alignment and RGE-induced degeneracy.
Nir Yosef
Raz Guy
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