Higgs boson masses and B-physics constraints in Non-Minimal Flavor Violating SUSY scenarios

Abstract

We present one-loop corrections to the Higgs boson masses in the MSSM with Non-Minimal Flavor Violation. The flavor violation is generated from the hypothesis of general flavor mixing in the squark mass matrices, and these are parametrized by a complete set of δ XY ij (X, Y = L, R; i, j = t, c, u or b, s, d). We calculate the corrections to the Higgs masses in terms of these δ XY ij taking into account all relevant restrictions from B-physics data. This includes constraints from BR(B → X s γ), BR(B s → μ + μ −) and ΔM Bs . After taking into account these constraints we find sizable corrections to the Higgs boson masses, in the case of the lightest MSSM Higgs boson mass exceeding tens of GeV. These corrections are found mainly for the low tan β case. In the case of a Higgs boson mass measurement these corrections might be used to set further constraints on δ XY ij.