Updating Bounds on $R$-Parity Violating Supersymmetry from Meson Oscillation Data

Abstract

We update the bounds on $R$-parity violating supersymmetry originating from meson oscillations in the $B_{d/s}^0$ and $K^0$ systems. To this end, we explicitly calculate all corresponding contributions from $R$-parity violating operators at the one-loop level, thereby completing and correcting existing calculations. We apply our results to the derivation of bounds on $R$-parity violating couplings, based on up-to-date experimental measurements. In addition, we consider the possibility of cancellations among flavor-changing contributions of various origins, e.g. from multiple $R$-parity violating couplings or $R$-parity conserving soft terms. Destructive interferences among new-physics contributions could then open phenomenologically allowed regions, for values of the parameters that are naively excluded when the parameters are varied individually.

Comments: 53 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables; final version