{\it T}--odd Asymmetry in Chargino Pair Production Processes

Abstract

$T$--violating asymmetry in chargino pair production processes is studied in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. The asymmetry emerges at the tree level in the production of two different charginos,and could be as large as of order $10^{-2}$ in unpolarized electron beam experiments and $10^{-1}$ in polarized electron beam experiments. In the pair production of the same charginos, the asymmetry emerges through the electric and the weak "electric" dipole moments of the charginos at the loop level. Its magnitude is of order $10^{-4}$. The consistency with the electric dipole moments of the neutron and the electron is also discussed.