10–14 Oct 2010
PSI
Europe/Zurich timezone

A large Muon Electric Dipole Moment from Flavor?

14 Oct 2010, 14:30
20m
Main Auditorium (WHGA/001) (PSI)

Main Auditorium (WHGA/001)

PSI

CH-5232 Villigen PSI
Oral Searches for symmetry violations Session Th - 3

Speaker

Mr Timo Rüppell (Helsinki Institute of Physics)

Description

We study the prospects and opportunities of a large muon electric dipole moment (EDM) of the order 10^-24 ecm -- 10^-22 ecm. We investigate how natural such a value is within the general minimal supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model with CP violation from lepton flavor violation in view of the experimental constraints. In models with hybrid gauge-gravity mediated supersymmetry breaking a large muon EDM is indicative for the structure of flavor breaking at the Planck scale, and points towards a high messenger scale.

Primary authors

Prof. Gudrun Hiller (Institut für Physik, Technische Universität Dortmund) Dr Jari Laamanen (Theoretical High Energy Physics, Radboud University Nijmegen) Prof. Katri Huitu (Helsinki Institute of Physics) Mr Timo Rüppell (Helsinki Institute of Physics)

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