Higgs mediated electric dipole moments in the MSSM: An application to baryogenesis and Higgs searches

Jul, 2002
34 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 644 (2002) 263-289
e-Print:
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 205^{205}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 tanβ\tan\beta and charged Higgs-boson masses, giving rise to large suppressions of the 205^{205}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 102410^{-24} ee 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