Squark flavour violation and naturalness at the LHC

Abstract

While rare meson decays place stringent constraints on much of the flavour violating parameter space of supersymmetric models, the mixing between right-handed top and charm squarks is so far unconstrained by the available data. Such mixing has in fact a very appealing phenomenology: it significantly weakens the current experimental bounds from direct squark searches and leads to a modest reduction of fine-tuning. The scenario can be tested already with the present 8 TeV data set by looking for the flavour violating final state t anti-t + missing E_T, thanks to the large squark pair production cross section.

5 pages, 7 figures. Proceedings for LHCP 2013: First Large Hadron Collider Physics Conference in Barcelona, May 13-18, 2013