Higgs mediated electric dipole moments in the MSSM: An application to baryogenesis and Higgs searches
Jul, 200234 pages
Published in:
- Nucl.Phys.B 644 (2002) 263-289
e-Print:
- hep-ph/0207277 [hep-ph]
Report number:
- CERN-TH-2002-170,
- MC-TH-2002-03
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Abstract:
We perform a comprehensive study of the dominant two- and higher-loop contributions to the Tl, neutron and muon electric dipole moments induced by Higgs bosons, third-generation quarks and squarks, charginos and gluinos in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). We find that strong correlations exist among the contributing CP-violating operators, for large stop, gluino and chargino phases, and for a wide range of values of and charged Higgs-boson masses, giving rise to large suppressions of the Tl and neutron electric dipole moments below their present experimental limits. Based on this observation, we discuss the constraints that the non-observation of electric dipole moments imposes on the radiatively-generated CP-violating Higgs sector and on the mechanism of electroweak baryogenesis in the MSSM. We improve previously suggested benchmark scenarios of maximal CP violation for analyzing direct searches of CP-violating MSSM Higgs bosons at high-energy colliders, and stress the important complementary r\^ole that a possible high-sensitivity measurement of the muon electric dipole moment to the level of cm can play in such analyses.Note:
- 34 pages, one reference added, version as to appear in Nuclear Physics B Report-no: CERN-TH/2002-170 and MC-TH-2002-03
- 11.30.Er
- 14.80.Er
- n: electric moment
- muon: electric moment
- supersymmetry
- Higgs particle: effect
- sparticle: effect
- electron nucleon: operator
- CP: violation
- atom: electric moment
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