Exact $S_3$ symmetry solving the supersymmetric flavor problem

Abstract

The exact discrete flavor symmetry, $S_3$ in the hadronic sector and $S_3\times Z_2$ in the leptonic sector, which has been recently found, is introduced in a supersymmetric extension of the standard model. We investigate the supersymmetric flavor problem, and explicitly find that thanks to the flavor symmetry the dangerous FCNC processes and CP-violating phases are sufficiently suppressed.

Comments: 11 pages, version accepted for publication, comments on the higgs sector and typos corrected, acknowledgments and references added