Minimal flavor violation in supersymmetric theories

TL;DR

This paper discusses the implementation of the minimal flavor violation hypothesis within the MSSM, highlighting its principles and implications for flavor-changing processes and CP violation.

Contribution

It introduces and motivates the minimal flavor violation framework in supersymmetric theories, analyzing its phenomenological consequences.

Findings

Constraints on FCNC processes derived from the hypothesis

Predictions for CP-violating observables in MSSM

Implications for R-parity violating processes

Abstract

The minimal flavor violation hypothesis is presented in the context of the MSSM. Its fundamental principles are introduced and motivated, and its phenomenological consequences for FCNC and CP-violating observables as well as for R-parity violating processes are briefly described.