Soft Supersymmetry Breaking, Scalar Top-Charm Mixing and Higgs Signatures.pdf

a r X i v : h e p - p h / 0 1 0 3 1 7 8 v 4 5 F e b 2 0 0 2 hep-ph/0103178 Soft Supersymmetry Breaking, Scalar Top-Charm Mixing and Higgs Signatures J. L. Diaz-Cruz a, Hong-Jian He b, C.–P. Yuan c a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 92710, USA b The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA c Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA Abstract The squark mass-matrix from the soft supersymmetry (SUSY) breaking sector contains a rich flavor-mixing structure that allows O(1) mixings among top- and charm-squarks while being consistent with all the existing theoretical and experimental bounds. We formulate a minimal flavor-changing-neutral current scheme in which the squark mixings arise from the non-diagonal scalar trilinear interactions. This feature can be realized in a class of new models with a horizontal U(1)H symmetry which generates realistic quark-mass matrices and provides a solution to the SUSY μ-problem. Finally, without using the mass-insertion approximation, we analyze SUSY radiative corrections to the H±bc and h0tc couplings, and show that these couplings can reveal exciting new discovery channels for the Higgs boson signals at the Tevatron and the LHC. PACS numbers: 12.60.-i, 12.15.-y, 11.15.Ex 1. Introduction Weak-scale supersymmetry (SUSY) [1], as a leading candidate for new physics beyond the stan- dard model (SM), sensibly explains electroweak symmetry breaking, but leaves the understanding of flavor sector as a major challenge. Being a new fundamental space-time symmetry between fermions and bosons, SUSY necessarily extends the SM flavor structure to include superpartners for all fermions and thus adds further puzzles to the flavor physics. To be consistent with the experimental data, supersymmetry has to be broken. The breaking of the SUSY lifts the mass spectrum of the superpartners and is parametrized by the soft-breaking Lagrangian of the Minimal Supersymmetric SM (MSSM) with a large