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Charge and Color Breaking conditions associated with the top quark Yukawa coupling

C. Le Mouël

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0103341

Abstract

In the MSSM, the Charge and Color Breaking (CCB) vacuum in the plane (H2,tL, tR) typically deviates largely from all D-flat directions, due to the large effects induced by the presence of the top quark Yukawa coupling. As a result, the critical CCB bound on the trilinear soft term At becomes more restrictive than the D-flat bound At2 3 (mtL2+mtR2+m22). For large β, we consider the effect of a splitting between the soft squark masses mtL,mtR on this optimal CCB bound and give a useful approximation for it, accurate within 1% in all interesting phenomenological cases. The physical implications on the top squark mass spectrum and the one-loop upper bound on the lightest CP-even Higgs boson mass are also discussed in a model-independent way.

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