Impact of SUSY CP Phases on Stop and Sbottom Decays in the MSSM

Abstract

We study the decays of top squarks and bottom squarks in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model with complex parameters A_t, A_b and mu. In a large region of the supersymmetric parameter space the branching ratios of stop_1 and sbottom_1 show a pronounced phase dependence. This could have an important impact on the search for stop_1 and sbottom_1 at a future linear collider and on the determination of the supersymmetric parameters.

10 pages, LaTeX, 4 eps figures; contribution to the Extended Joint ECFA/DESY Study on Physics and Detectors for a Linear Electron-Positron Collider; v2: parameter space excluded by B(b -> s gamma) corrected