CP violating supersymmetry effects in the penguin dominated modes BφK and BφK*

Abstract
Recent measurement of time dependent asymmetries in BφK are indicative of a new source of CP violation. We examine squark mixing in supersymmetry as this new source, and using a QCD improved factorization method to describe BφK decay we find the allowed range of parameter space for ρ and ψ, the magnitude and phase of the down type LR (RL) squark mixing parameter δLR(RL)bs. We then study BφK* and calculate the expected CP asymmetries in the same range of parameter space. We find that this asymmetry is in the range 15%–20% for an acceptable value of the BφK* branching ratio. We also predict the helicity dependent CP asymmetries in the same parameter space.