Lepton flavor violation as a probe of squark mixing in supersymmetric SU(5)

Abstract

We study flavor violation in a supersymmetric SU(5) grand unification scenario in a model-independent way employing mass insertions. We examine how the quark and the lepton sector observables restrict sfermion mixings. In many cases, a lepton flavor violating process provides a stringent constraint on the flavor structure of right-handed down-type squarks. In particular, mu -> e gamma turns out to be highly susceptible to the 1-3 and 2-3 mixings thereof, due to the radiative correction from the top Yukawa coupling to the scalar mass terms of 10. We also discuss projected sensitivity of forthcoming experiments, and ways to maintain the power of leptonic restrictions even after incorporating a solution to fix the incorrect quark-lepton mass relations.