Probing Higgs-sector CP Violation at a Photon Collider

In this review we demonstrate physics potential of a photon linear collider by studying the neutral Higgs-boson sector of the MSSM in which interesting CP-violating Higgs mixing could arise via radiative corrections.Comment: 18 pages, 8 figures, 1 table, invited article by Modern Physics Letters A (review section), added reference

Addendum to ``Threshold corrections to mbm_b and the bˉb→Hi0\bar{b}b \to H^0_i production in CP-violating SUSY scenarios''

In hep-ph/0401024: ``Threshold corrections to $m_b$ and the $\bar{b}b\to H^0_i$ production in CP-violating SUSY scenarios'', we have pointed out that the production cross sections of the three neutral Higgs bosons through $\bar{b}b$ fusion can deviate substantially from those obtained in CP conserving scenarios, thanks to the nontrivial role played by the threshold corrections to $m_b$ combined with the CP-violating mixing in the neutral-Higgs-boson sector. The deviations are largest for values of the CP-violating phases that maximize the mixing among at least two of the three neutral Higgs bosons. We complement our previous work focussing explicitly on the values of masses and widths of the three neutral Higgs bosons in this region of parameter space. We then address the issue of whether the three different peaks in the invariant mass distribution of the Higgs-decay products can be experimentally disentangled at the LHC.Comment: 1+6 pages, 3 figure

Electric Dipole Moments in the MSSM Reloaded

We present a detailed study of the Thallium, neutron, Mercury and deuteron electric dipole moments (EDMs) in the CP-violating Minimal Supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model (MSSM). We take into account the complete set of one-loop graphs, the dominant Higgs-mediated two-loop diagrams, the complete CP-odd dimension-six Weinberg operator and the Higgs-mediated four-fermion operators. We improve upon earlier calculations by including the resummation effects due to CP-violating Higgs-boson mixing and to threshold corrections to the Yukawa couplings of all up- and down-type quarks and charged leptons. As an application of our study, we analyse the EDM constraints on the CPX, trimixing and Maximally CP- and Minimally Flavour-Violating (MCPMFV) scenarios. Cancellations may occur among the CP-violating contributions to the three measured EDMs arising from the 6 CP-violating phases in the MCPMFV scenario, leaving open the possibility of relatively large contributions to other CP-violating observables. The analytic expressions for the EDMs are implemented in an updated version of the code CPsuperH2.0.Comment: 61 pages, 28 figures, references added, to appear in JHEP, the overall sign of Eq.(3.17) corrected, some details of numerical results slightly changed, one more reference added, Eqs.(3.13) and (3.17) correcte