2003/03/31 by D. Demir, D. A. Demir · 5 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Electroweak scale #Gauge boson #Gauge theory #Higgs boson #Higgs sector #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model #Neutrino Physics Research #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Quark #Supersymmetry #Top quark #Yukawa potential #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2003.07.069
published as Phys.Lett. B571 (2003) 193-208 · 20 pp. Added references, improved the discussion of FCNC constraints;journal version
arxiv created 2003/07/21 · openalex publication_date 2003/09/12 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
In minimal supersymmetric model (SUSY) with a light Higgs sector, explicit CP violation and most general flavor mixings in the sfermion sector, integration of the superpartners out of the spectrum induces potentially large contributions to the Yukawa couplings of light quarks via those of the heavier ones. These corrections can be sizeable even for moderate values of tanβ, and remain nonvanishing even if all superpartners decouple. When the SUSY breaking scale is close to the electroweak scale, the Higgs exchange effects can compete with the gauge boson and box diagram contributions to rare processes, and their partial cancellations can lead to relaxation of the existing bounds on flavor violation sources. In this case there exist sizeable enhancements in flavor-changing Higgs decays. When the superpartners completely decouple, however, the Higgs mediation becomes the dominant SUSY contribution to rare processes the saturation of which, without a strong suppression of the flavor mixings, prefers large tanβ and certain ranges for the CP-odd phases. The decay rate of the lightest Higgs into light down quarks becomes comparable with that into the bottom quark. Moreover, the Higgs decay into the up quark is significantly enhanced. There are observable implications for rare processes, atomic electric dipole moments, and collider searches for Higgs bosons.