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We investigate couplings of squarks to gauge and Higgs-bosons within the framework of non-minimal avour violation in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. Introducing non-diagonal elements in the mass matrices of squarks, we first study their impact on the self-energies and physical mass eigenvalues of squarks. We then present an extensive analysis of bosonic squark decays for variations of the flavour-violating parameters around the two benchmark scenarios SPS1a' and SPS1b. Signatures, that would be characteristic for a non-minimal flavour structure in the squark sector, can be found in wide regions of the parameter space.
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Bruhnke, M., Herrmann, B. & Porod, W. Signatures of bosonic squark decays in non-minimally flavour-violating supersymmetry. J. High Energ. Phys. 2010, 6 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2010)006
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