title: Flavor- and CP-violating physics from new supersymmetric thresholds.
abstract: Treating the minimal supersymmetric standard model as an effective theory, we study the implications of having dimension-five operators in the superpotential for flavor- and CP-violating processes, exploiting the linear decoupling of observable effects with respect to the new threshold scale c. We show that the assumption of weak-scale supersymmetry, when combined with the stringent limits on electric dipole moments and lepton-flavor-violating processes, provides sensitivity to Lambda as high as 10(7)-10(9) GeV (and up to 10(17) GeV through the theta term), while the next generation of experiments could directly probe the high-energy scales suggested by neutrino physics.
authors.affiliation: Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario N2J 2W9, Canada.
authors.forename: Maxim
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pospelov
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ritz
authors.forename: Yudi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Santoso