Gauging the Way to MFV

Note: 2:00 PM
Speaker: Daniel Stolarski, University of Maryland

When: March 1, 2013 (Fri), 02:00PM to 03:00PM (add to my calendar)
Location: PRB 595

This event is part of the HET Seminar Series.

Abstract: I present a UV complete model of R-parity violating (RPV) supersymmetry with a gauged flavor symmetry which approximately realizes holomorphic Minimal Flavor Violation (MFV). Previous work has shown that imposing MFV as an ansatz easily evades direct constraints and has interesting collider phenomenology. The question of whether there exists a model which predicts the MFV correlation between Yukawa couplings, RPV couplings, and SUSY breaking, was until now, unanswered. I will present a model which, in a particular limit, realizes exact MFV. I then compute corrections away from MFV and show that they are under theoretical control. There is a large region of viable parameter space, and there are new states in addition to those of the MSSM which can be below a TeV. This work is described in arXiv:1212.4860.