Charged Higgs contributions to rare weak processes in a supergravity model
TL;DR: In this paper, a no-scale N = 1 suppergravity model was proposed to examine the contributions of the Higgs contributions to the Gaussian model and showed that these contributions can very well dominate over the gluino-induced effects.
Abstract: Charged Higgs contributions to\(Z^0 \to b\bar s + \bar bs\) andb→sγ are examined in a no-scaleN=1 suppergravity model taking into account the constraints typical of the model. Even with these rather restrictive constraints, such contributions can very well dominate over the gluino-induced effects.
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