Minimal flavor violation in supersymmetric theories

Abstract

The minimal flavor violation hypothesis is presented in the context of the MSSM. Its fundamental principles are introduced and motivated, and its phenomenological consequences for FCNC and CP-violating observables as well as for R-parity violating processes are briefly described.

Comments: 10 pages. Talk given at the Flavianet Topical Workshop "Low energy constraints on extensions of the Standard Model", July 23-27, Kazimierz, Poland