194 research outputs found
New techniques for chargino-neutralino detection at LHC
The recent LHC discovery of a Higgs-like boson at 126 GeV has important
consequences for SUSY, pushing the spectrum of strong-interacting
supersymmetric particles to high energies, very difficult to probe at the LHC.
This gives extra motivation to study the direct production of electroweak
particles, as charginos and neutralinos, which are presently very poorly
constrained. The aim of this work is to improve the analysis of
chargino-neutralino pair production at LHC, focusing on the kinematics of the
processes. We propose a new method based on the study of the poles of a certain
kinematical variable. This complements other approaches, giving new information
about the spectrum and improving the signal-to-background ratio. We illustrate
the method in particular SUSY models, and show that working with the LHC at
100/fb luminosity one would be able to distinguish the SUSY signal from the
Standard Model background.Comment: accepted for publication in JHE
Reducing the fine-tuning of gauge-mediated SUSY breaking
Despite their appealing features, models with gauge-mediated supersymmetry
breaking (GMSB) typically present a high degree of fine-tuning, due to the
initial absence of the top trilinear scalar couplings, . In this paper,
we carefully evaluate such a tuning, showing that is worse than per mil in the
minimal model. Then, we examine some existing proposals to generate
term in this context. We find that, although the stops can be made lighter,
usually the tuning does not improve (it may be even worse), with some
exceptions, which involve the generation of at one loop or tree level. We
examine both possibilities and propose a conceptually simplified version of the
latter; which is arguably the optimum GMSB setup (with minimal matter content),
concerning the fine-tuning issue. The resulting fine-tuning is better than one
per mil, still severe but similar to other minimal supersymmetric standard
model constructions. We also explore the so-called "little
problem", i.e. the fact that a large -term is normally accompanied by a
similar or larger sfermion mass, which typically implies an increase in the
fine-tuning. Finally, we find the version of GMSB for which this ratio is
optimized, which, nevertheless, does not minimize the fine-tuning.Comment: 16 pages, 11 figures, 1 appendix. Discussion extended, matches EPJC
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The health of SUSY after the Higgs discovery and the XENON100 data
We analyze the implications for the status and prospects of supersymmetry of
the Higgs discovery and the last XENON data. We focus mainly, but not only, on
the CMSSM and NUHM models. Using a Bayesian approach we determine the
distribution of probability in the parameter space of these scenarios. This
shows that, most probably, they are now beyond the LHC reach . This negative
chances increase further (at more than 95% c.l.) if one includes dark matter
constraints in the analysis, in particular the last XENON100 data. However, the
models would be probed completely by XENON1T. The mass of the LSP neutralino
gets essentially fixed around 1 TeV. We do not incorporate ad hoc measures of
the fine-tuning to penalize unnatural possibilities: such penalization arises
automatically from the careful Bayesian analysis itself, and allows to scan the
whole parameter space. In this way, we can explain and resolve the apparent
discrepancies between the previous results in the literature. Although SUSY has
become hard to detect at LHC, this does not necessarily mean that is very
fine-tuned. We use Bayesian techniques to show the experimental Higgs mass is
at off the CMSSM or NUHM expectation. This is substantial but
not dramatic. Although the CMSSM or the NUHM are unlikely to show up at the
LHC, they are still interesting and plausible models after the Higgs
observation; and, if they are true, the chances of discovering them in future
dark matter experiments are quite high
What is a Natural SUSY scenario?
The idea of "Natural SUSY", understood as a supersymmetric scenario where the
fine-tuning is as mild as possible, is a reasonable guide to explore
supersymmetric phenomenology. In this paper, we re-examine this issue in the
context of the MSSM including several improvements, such as the mixing of the
fine-tuning conditions for different soft terms and the presence of potential
extra fine-tunings that must be combined with the electroweak one. We give
tables and plots that allow to easily evaluate the fine-tuning and the
corresponding naturalness bounds for any theoretical model defined at any
high-energy (HE) scale. Then, we analyze in detail the complete fine-tuning
bounds for the unconstrained MSSM, defined at any HE scale. We show that
Natural SUSY does not demand light stops. Actually, an average stop mass below
800 GeV is disfavored, though one of the stops might be very light. Regarding
phenomenology, the most stringent upper bound from naturalness is the one on
the gluino mass, which typically sets the present level of fine-tuning at
. However, this result presents a strong dependence on the HE
scale. E.g. if the latter is GeV the level of fine-tuning is four
times less severe. Finally, the most robust result of Natural SUSY is by far
that Higgsinos should be rather light, certainly below 700 GeV for a
fine-tuning of or milder. Incidentally, this upper bound is not
far from TeV, which is the value required if dark matter is made of
Higgsinos.Comment: 41 pages, 8 figures, 9 tables. References added, matches JHEP
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Quantifying the tension between the Higgs mass and (g-2)_mu in the CMSSM
Supersymmetry has been often invoqued as the new physics that might reconcile
the experimental muon magnetic anomaly, a_mu, with the theoretical prediction
(basing the computation of the hadronic contribution on e^+ e^- data). However,
in the context of the CMSSM, the required supersymmetric contributions (which
grow with decreasing supersymmetric masses) are in potential tension with a
possibly large Higgs mass (which requires large stop masses). In the limit of
very large m_h supersymmetry gets decoupled, and the CMSSM must show the same
discrepancy as the SM with a_mu . But it is much less clear for which size of
m_h does the tension start to be unbearable. In this paper, we quantify this
tension with the help of Bayesian techniques. We find that for m_h > 125 GeV
the maximum level of discrepancy given current data (~ 3.3 sigma) is already
achieved. Requiring less than 3 sigma discrepancy, implies m_h < 120 GeV. For a
larger Higgs mass we should give up either the CMSSM model or the computation
of a_mu based on e^+ e^-; or accept living with such inconsistency
Bayesian approach and Naturalness in MSSM analyses for the LHC
The start of LHC has motivated an effort to determine the relative
probability of the different regions of the MSSM parameter space, taking into
account the present, theoretical and experimental, wisdom about the model.
Since the present experimental data are not powerful enough to select a small
region of the MSSM parameter space, the choice of a judicious prior probability
for the parameters becomes most relevant. Previous studies have proposed
theoretical priors that incorporate some (conventional) measure of the
fine-tuning, to penalize unnatural possibilities. However, we show that such
penalization arises from the Bayesian analysis itself (with no ad hoc
assumptions), upon the marginalization of the mu-parameter. Furthermore the
resulting effective prior contains precisely the Barbieri-Giudice measure,
which is very satisfactory. On the other hand we carry on a rigorous treatment
of the Yukawa couplings, showing in particular that the usual practice of
taking the Yukawas "as required", approximately corresponds to taking
logarithmically flat priors in the Yukawa couplings. Finally, we use an
efficient set of variables to scan the MSSM parameter space, trading in
particular B by tan beta, giving the effective prior in the new parameters.
Beside the numerical results, we give accurate analytic expressions for the
effective priors in all cases. Whatever experimental information one may use in
the future, it is to be weighted by the Bayesian factors worked out here.Comment: LaTeX, 19 pages, 3 figure
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