Speaker
Dr
Björn Herrmann
(DESY)
Description
In supersymmetric models that are embedded in grand unified theories, new sources of flavour violation may appear, beyond the hypothesis of minimal flavour violation where all flavour-changing interactions are related to the CKM-matrix. The corresponding new flavour mixing terms at the electroweak scale can induce interesting signatures at colliders. I will focus on non-minimal flavour violation in the squark sector of the MSSM. After discussing the model, I will discuss its influence on the mass spectrum and flavour decomposition of squarks. I will finally show examples of collider signatures that might allow to test the hypothesis of minimal flavour violation.
Primary author
Dr
Björn Herrmann
(DESY)
