Delta F = 1 Constraints on Minimal Flavor Violation

Abstract

We present an updated phenomenological analysis of the minimal flavor violating (MFV) effective theory, both at small and large tan beta, in the sector of Delta F=1 processes. We evaluate the bounds on the scale of new physics derived from recent measurements (in particular from B to Xs gamma, B to Xs l+ l-, Bs to mu+ mu- and K to pi nu bar nu) and we use such bounds to derive a series of model-independent predictions within MFV for future experimental searches in the flavor sector.

Comments: 6 pages, 1 figure; To appear in the proceedings of 43nd Rencontres de Moriond on Electroweak Interactions and Unified Theories, La Thuile, Italy, 1-8 Mar 2008