posted on 2016-08-01, 00:00authored byJ Berger, MW Cahill-Rowley, D Ghosh, JL Hewett, A. Ismail, TG Rizzo
We investigate the sensitivity of the next generation of flavor-based low-energy experiments to probe the
supersymmetric parameter space in the context of the phenomenological minimal supersymmetric Standard
Model and examine the complementarity with direct searches for supersymmetry at the 13 TeV LHC in a
quantitative manner. To this end, we enlarge the previously studied phenomenological minimal supersymmetric
Standard Model parameter space to include all physical nonzero CP-violating phases, namely
those associated with the gaugino mass parameters; Higgsino mass parameter and the trilinear couplings of
the top quark, bottom quark, and tau lepton. We find that future electric dipole moment and flavor
measurements can have a strong impact on the viability of these models even if the sparticle spectrum is out
of reach of the 13 TeV LHC. In particular, the lack of positive signals in future low-energy probes would
exclude values of the phases between Oð10−2Þ and Oð10−1Þ. We also find regions of parameter space
where large phases remain allowed due to cancellations. Most interestingly, in some rare processes, such as
BRðBs → μþμ−Þ, we find that contributions arising from CP-violating phases can bring the potentially
large supersymmetry contributions into better agreement with experiment and Standard Model predictions.
Funding
This work was
supported by the Department of Energy, Contracts
No. DE-AC02-06CH11357, No. DE-AC02-76SF00515,
and No. DE-FG02-12ER41811. D. G. has received support
from the European Research Council (ERC) under the
European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP/
2007-2013)/ERC Grant No. 279972.