# Muon anomalous magnetic dipole moment in supersymmetric theories

• Published 2001

#### Abstract

We study the muon anomalous magnetic dipole moment in supersymmetric theories. The impact of the recent Brookhaven E821 experimental measurement on both modelindependent and model-dependent supersymmetric parameter spaces is discussed in detail. We find that values of tanβ as low as 3 can be obtained while remaining within the E821 one-sigma bound. This requires a light smuon; however, we show that, somewhat surprisingly, no model-independent bound can be placed on the mass of the lightest chargino for any tanβ ≥ 3. We also show that the maximum contributions to the anomalous magnetic moment are insensitive to CP-violating phases. We provide analyses of the supersymmetric contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment in dilaton-dominated supergravity models and gauge-mediated supersymmetrybreaking models. Finally, we discuss how other phenomena, such as B(b → sγ), relic abundance of the lightest superpartner, and the Higgs mass may be correlated with the anomalous magnetic moment, but do not significantly impact the viability of a supersymmetric explanation, or the mass limits obtainable on smuons and charginos.

### Cite this paper

@inproceedings{Martin2001MuonAM, title={Muon anomalous magnetic dipole moment in supersymmetric theories}, author={Stephen P. Martin and James D. Wells}, year={2001} }