Charged Higgs production in the flavored MSSM

TL;DR

This paper investigates how non-minimal flavor structures in the flavored MSSM can significantly alter charged-Higgs production rates, offering new ways to probe flavor physics beyond traditional rare decay experiments.

Contribution

It demonstrates that non-minimal flavor structures can substantially impact charged-Higgs production cross sections, challenging the minimal flavor violation assumption.

Findings

Non-minimal flavor structures can increase charged-Higgs production rates.

Charged-Higgs searches can probe flavor structures inaccessible to rare decay experiments.

The study highlights the importance of collider searches in flavor physics.

Abstract

In the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model squark mixing can significantly change the pattern of charged-Higgs production. We find that non-minimal flavor structures can have a sizeable impact on the charged-Higgs production cross section, whereas charged-Higgs searches may be able to probe flavor structures not accessible to rare kaon, bottom or charm experiments, and can invalidate the assumption of minimal flavor violation.