Recent progress on supersymmetric effects in rare K decays

Christopher Smith

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Recent progress on supersymmetric effects in rare K decays

Christopher Smith

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The dominant MSSM effects in the rare K decays, K+ --> pi+ nu nu bar, KL --> pi0 nu nu bar, KL --> pi0 e+ e- and KL --> pi0 mu+ mu-, are discussed both within and without the minimal flavor violation hypothesis, at moderate and large tangent beta. In each case, the sensitivities to MSSM soft-breaking terms are compared, laying emphasis on possible correlations among observables. In most scenarios, rare K decays offer unique windows into the Delta S=1 sector of the soft-breaking terms. Therefore, together with B-physics and collider observables, these modes will be essential for reconstructing the still elusive SUSY-breaking mechanism.

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Christopher Smith. 2007-07-16. Recent progress on supersymmetric effects in rare K decays. https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.2309

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