Fermion electric dipole moments in R-parity violating supersymmetry

Abstract

In this talk I discuss some aspects of the study of electric dipole moments (EDMs) of the fermions, in the context of R-parity violating (R_p) Supersymmetry (SUSY). I will start with a brief general discussion of how dipole moments, in general, serve as a probe of physics beyond the Standard Model (SM) and an even briefer summary of R_p SUSY. I will follow by discussing a general method of analysis for obtaining the leading fermion mass dependence of the dipole moments and present its application to R_p SUSY case. Then I will summarise the constraints that the analysis of e, n and H_g EDMs provide for the case of trilinear R_p SUSY couplings and make a few comments on the case of bilinear R_p, where the general method of analysis proposed by us does not work.