<i>CP</i>violation in a supersymmetric model with nondegenerate<i>A</i>terms

Abstract

We study the $\mathrm{CP}$ phases of the soft supersymmetry breaking terms in string-inspired models with nonuniversal trilinear couplings. We show that such nonuniversality plays an important role on all $\mathrm{CP}$ violating processes. In particular these new supersymmetric sources of $\mathrm{CP}$ violation may significantly contribute to the observed $\mathrm{CP}$ phenomena in kaon physics while respecting the severe bound on the electric dipole moment of the neutron.