CP Violaing Phases In SUSY GUT Models

Abstract

Supersymmetric CP violating phases are examined within the framework of gravity mediated supergravity grand unified models with R parity invariance for models with a light ($\stackrel{<}{\sim} 1$ TeV) particle spectrum. In the minimal model, the nearness of the t quark Landau pole naturally suppresses the t-quark cubic soft breaking parameter at the electroweak scale allowing the electron and neutron experimental electric dipole moment (EDM) constraints to be satisfied with a large GUT scale phase. However, the EDM constraints require that $θ_B$, the quadratic soft breaking parameter phase be small at the electroweak scale unless tan$β\stackrel{<}{\sim}3$, which then implies that at the GUT scale this phase must be large and highly fine tuned to satisfy radiative breaking of $SU(2)\times U(1)$. Similar results hold for non minimal models, and a possible GUT model is discussed where all GUT scale CP violating phases are naturally small (i.e. O($10^{-2})$). An interesting D-brane model is examined which enhances the size of the phases over much of the parameter space at the electroweak sector for tan$β\stackrel{<}{\sim} 5$, but still possesses the fine tuning problem at the GUT scale.