Effect of SUSY phases on the $B^0_d - \bar{B}^0_d$ mixing in the minimal supergravity model

Abstract

We investigate the effect of SUSY phases ($θ_A$ and $θ_μ$) on the $B^0_d - \bar{B}^0_d$ mixing in the minimal supergravity model. It is known that the complex phase $θ_A$ $=$ arg($A$) ($A$ is the universal coefficient of the trilinear scalar couplings) is essentially unconstrained by the electric dipole moment experiment, while the phase $θ_μ$ $=$ arg($μ$) ($μ$ is the supersymmetric Higgsino mass) is strongly constrained to zero. We found that $θ_A$ does not affect the phase of the $B^0_d - \bar{B}^0_d$ mixing matrix element $M_{12}(B)$ by numerical analysis of the renormalization group equations. This means that the measurement of the $B^0_d - \bar{B}^0_d$ mixing at the future B-factory could give the direct information on the parameters of the CKM matrix even in the framework of the minimal supergravity model with the SUSY phase $θ_A$.