Anomaly mediated supersymmetry breaking and flavor violation

by Prof. Tim Jones (Liverpool)

Thursday 27 Nov 2008, 11:00 → 12:00 Europe/Zurich

1/1-025 (CERN)

Part I: discussion of recent papers (15 min max) Part II: chalkboard talk by Tim Jones Abstract for talk: I will review the anomaly mediated form for the soft supersymmetry-breaking terms in the MSSM, various fixes for the tachyonic slepton problem, including of course my favourite one, and how the low energy phenomenology with the scenario differs from MSUGRA. Then we'll look at the flavour structure of the anomaly mediated supersymmetry breaking terms in the squark mass parameters, which turn out to be of the minimal flavour violating (MFV) type, and show that, including the full flavour structure in the squark mass matrices, the model (given appropriate constraints on parameters such as $m_{3/2}$ and $\tan\beta$) still passes the current bounds on flavour changing neutral currents without difficulty.