CP-odd A^0 production at e^+e^- colliders in MSSM with CP violating phases

Abstract

We study the production of a heavy CP-odd $A^0$ boson in association with a photon $e^+e^-\to A^0γ$ and a Z boson $e^+e^-\to A^0 Z$ as well as the single production of $A^0$ via $e^+e^- \to ν_e\barν_e A^0$ in the MSSM with CP violating phases. In the case of $e^+e^-\to A^0γ/ A^0 Z$, we show that the squark contribution, which vanishes in the MSSM with real parameters, turns out to be sizeable in presence of CP violating phases in the soft SUSY parameters. For $e^+e^- \to ν_e \barν_e A^0$ in both the 2HDM and MSSM with real parameters, the cross section does not reach observable rates at a NLC. It is found that with a large CP violating phase for $A_t$, cross sections of the order 0.1 fb are attainable for all the processes $e^+e^-\to A^0γ$, $e^+e^-\to A^0 Z$ and $e^+e^- \to ν_e \barν_e A^0$.