ΔMd,s, B0d,s→μ+μ− and B→Xsγ in supersymmetry at large tanβ Original Research Article

We present an effective Lagrangian formalism for the calculation of flavour changing neutral and charged scalar currents in weak decays including SU(2)×U(1) symmetry breaking effects and the effects of the electroweak couplings g1 and g2. We apply this formalism to the MSSM with large tanβ with the CKM matrix as the only source of flavour violation, heavy supersymmetric particles and light Higgs bosons. We give analytic formulae for the neutral and charged Higgs boson couplings to quarks including large tanβ resummed corrections in the SU(2)×U(1) limit and demonstrate that these formulae can only be used for a semi-quantitative analysis. In particular, they overestimate the effects of large tanβ resummed corrections. We give also improved analytic formulae that reproduce the numerical results of the full approach within 5–10%. We present for the first time the predictions for the branching ratios B0s,d→μ+μ− and the B0d,s–B 0d,s mass differences ΔMd,s that include simultaneously the resummed large tanβ corrections, SU(2)×U(1) breaking effects and the effects of the electroweak couplings. We perform an anatomy of the correlation between the increase of the rates of the decays B0s,d→μ+μ− and the suppression of ΔMs, that for large tanβ are caused by the enhanced flavour changing neutral Higgs couplings to down quarks. We take into account the constraint from B→Xsγ clarifying some points in the calculation of the large tanβ enhanced corrections to this decay.