591 research outputs found
Decoupling heavy sparticles in Effective SUSY scenarios: Unification, Higgs masses and tachyon bounds
Using two-loop renormalization group equations implementing the decoupling of
heavy scalars, Effective SUSY scenarios are studied in the limit in which there
is a single low energy Higgs field. Gauge coupling unification is shown to hold
with similar or better precision than in standard MSSM scenarios. b-tau
unification is examined, and Higgs masses are computed using the effective
potential, including two-loop contributions from scalars. A 125 GeV Higgs is
compatible with stops/sbottoms at around 300 GeV with non-universal boundary
conditions at the scale of the heavy sparticles if some of the trilinear
couplings at this scale take values of the order of 1-2 TeV; if more
constrained boundary conditions inspired by msugra or gauge mediation are set
at a higher scale, heavier colored sparticles are required in general. Finally,
since the decoupled RG flow for third-generation scalar masses departs very
significantly from the MSSM DR-bar one, tachyon bounds for light scalars are
revisited and shown to be relaxed by up to a TeV or more.Comment: 35 pages, 17 figures. v2: Updated some scans, allowing for changes in
sign of some parameters, minor improvements. v3: Typos corrected in formulae
in the appendices, added some clarifying remarks about flavor mixing being
ignore
Superpartner spectrum of minimal gaugino-gauge mediation
We evaluate the sparticle mass spectrum in the minimal four-dimensional
construction that interpolates between gaugino and ordinary gauge mediation at
the weak scale. We find that even in the hybrid case -- when the messenger
scale is comparable to the mass of the additional gauge particles -- both the
right-handed as well as the left-handed sleptons are lighter than the bino in
the low-scale mediation regime. This implies a chain of lepton production and,
consequently, striking signatures that may be probed at the LHC already in the
near future.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures; V2: refs and a few comments added; V3 title
change
Yukawa unification in SO(10) with light sparticle spectrum
We investigate supersymmetric SO(10) GUT model with \mu<0. The requirements
of top-bottom-tau Yukawa unification, correct radiative electroweak symmetry
breaking and agreement with the present experimental data may be met when the
soft masses of scalars and gauginos are non-universal. We show how appropriate
non-universalities can easily be obtained in the SO(10) GUT broken to the
Standard Model. We discuss how values of BR(b-->s \gamma) and (g-2)_\mu
simultaneously in a good agreement with the experimental data can be achieved
in SO(10) model with \mu<0. In the region of the parameter space preferred by
our analysis there are two main mechanisms leading to the LSP relic abundance
consistent with the WMAP results. One is the co-annihilation with the stau and
the second is the resonant annihilation via exchange of the Z boson or the
light Higgs scalar. A very interesting feature of SO(10) models with negative
\mu is that they predict relatively light sparticle spectra. Even the heaviest
superpartners may easily have masses below 1.5 TeV in contrast to multi-TeV
particles typical for models with positive \mu.Comment: 23 pages, 5 figure
Combining Anomaly and Z' Mediation of Supersymmetry Breaking
We propose a scenario in which the supersymmetry breaking effect mediated by
an additional U(1)' is comparable with that of anomaly mediation. We argue that
such a scenario can be naturally realized in a large class of models. Combining
anomaly with Z' mediation allows us to solve the tachyonic slepton problem of
the former and avoid significant fine tuning in the latter. We focus on an
NMSSM-like scenario where U(1)' gauge invariance is used to forbid a tree-level
mu term, and present concrete models, which admit successful dynamical
electroweak symmetry breaking. Gaugino masses are somewhat lighter than the
scalar masses, and the third generation squarks are lighter than the first two.
In the specific class of models under consideration, the gluino is light since
it only receives a contribution from 2-loop anomaly mediation, and it decays
dominantly into third generation quarks. Gluino production leads to distinct
LHC signals and prospects of early discovery. In addition, there is a
relatively light Z', with mass in the range of several TeV. Discovering and
studying its properties can reveal important clues about the underlying model.Comment: Minor changes: references added, typos corrected, journal versio
A 125 GeV SM-like Higgs in the MSSM and the rate
We consider the possibility of a Standard Model (SM)-like Higgs in the
context of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM), with a mass of
about 125 GeV and with a production times decay rate into two photons which is
similar or somewhat larger than the SM one. The relatively large value of the
SM-like Higgs mass demands stops in the several hundred GeV mass range with
somewhat large mixing, or a large hierarchy between the two stop masses in the
case that one of the two stops is light. We find that, in general, if the
heaviest stop mass is smaller than a few TeV, the rate of gluon fusion
production of Higgs bosons decaying into two photons tends to be somewhat
suppressed with respect to the SM one in this region of parameters. However, we
show that an enhancement of the photon decay rate may be obtained for light
third generation sleptons with large mixing, which can be naturally obtained
for large values of and sizable values of the Higgsino mass
parameter.Comment: 14 pages, 4 figures. Corrected small typos and added reference
Phenomenological Implications of Deflected Mirage Mediation: Comparison with Mirage Mediation
We compare the collider phenomenology of mirage mediation and deflected
mirage mediation, which are two recently proposed "mixed" supersymmetry
breaking scenarios motivated from string compactifications. The scenarios
differ in that deflected mirage mediation includes contributions from gauge
mediation in addition to the contributions from gravity mediation and anomaly
mediation also present in mirage mediation. The threshold effects from gauge
mediation can drastically alter the low energy spectrum from that of pure
mirage mediation models, resulting in some cases in a squeezed gaugino spectrum
and a gluino that is much lighter than other colored superpartners. We provide
several benchmark deflected mirage mediation models and construct model lines
as a function of the gauge mediation contributions, and discuss their discovery
potential at the LHC.Comment: 29 pages, 9 figure
Viability of MSSM scenarios at very large tan(beta)
We investigate the MSSM with very large tan(beta) > 50, where the fermion
masses are strongly affected by loop-induced couplings to the "wrong" Higgs,
imposing perturbative Yukawa couplings and constraints from flavour physics.
Performing a low-energy scan of the MSSM with flavour-blind soft terms, we find
that the branching ratio of B->tau nu and the anomalous magnetic moment of the
muon are the strongest constraints at very large tan(beta) and identify the
viable regions in parameter space. Furthermore we determine the scale at which
the perturbativity of the Yukawa sector breaks down, depending on the
low-energy MSSM parameters. Next, we analyse the very large tan(beta) regime of
General Gauge Mediation (GGM) with a low mediation scale. We investigate the
requirements on the parameter space and discuss the implied flavour
phenomenology. We point out that the possibility of a vanishing Bmu term at a
mediation scale M = 100 TeV is challenged by the experimental data on B->tau nu
and the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon.Comment: 29 pages, 7 figures. v2: discussion in sections 1 and 4 expanded,
conclusions unchanged. Matches version published in JHE
Testing the gaugino AMSB model at the Tevatron via slepton pair production
Gaugino AMSB models-- wherein scalar and trilinear soft SUSY breaking terms
are suppressed at the GUT scale while gaugino masses adopt the AMSB form--
yield a characteristic SUSY particle mass spectrum with light sleptons along
with a nearly degenerate wino-like lightest neutralino and quasi-stable
chargino. The left- sleptons and sneutrinos can be pair produced at
sufficiently high rates to yield observable signals at the Fermilab Tevatron.
We calculate the rate for isolated single and dilepton plus missing energy
signals, along with the presence of one or two highly ionizing chargino tracks.
We find that Tevatron experiments should be able to probe gravitino masses into
the ~55 TeV range for inoAMSB models, which corresponds to a reach in gluino
mass of over 1100 GeV.Comment: 14 pages including 6 .eps figure
LHC and lepton flavour violation phenomenology of a left-right extension of the MSSM
We study the phenomenology of a supersymmetric left-right model, assuming
minimal supergravity boundary conditions. Both left-right and (B-L) symmetries
are broken at an energy scale close to, but significantly below the GUT scale.
Neutrino data is explained via a seesaw mechanism. We calculate the RGEs for
superpotential and soft parameters complete at 2-loop order. At low energies
lepton flavour violation (LFV) and small, but potentially measurable mass
splittings in the charged scalar lepton sector appear, due to the RGE running.
Different from the supersymmetric 'pure seesaw' models, both, LFV and slepton
mass splittings, occur not only in the left- but also in the right slepton
sector. Especially, ratios of LFV slepton decays, such as Br()/Br() are sensitive to the
ratio of (B-L) and left-right symmetry breaking scales. Also the model predicts
a polarization asymmetry of the outgoing positrons in the decay , A ~ [0,1], which differs from the pure seesaw 'prediction' A=1$.
Observation of any of these signals allows to distinguish this model from any
of the three standard, pure (mSugra) seesaw setups.Comment: 43 pages, 17 figure
Testing Yukawa-unified SUSY during year 1 of LHC: the role of multiple b-jets, dileptons and missing E_T
We examine the prospects for testing SO(10) Yukawa-unified supersymmetric
models during the first year of LHC running at \sqrt{s}= 7 TeV, assuming
integrated luminosity values of 0.1 to 1 fb^-1. We consider two cases: the
Higgs splitting (HS) and the D-term splitting (DR3) models. Each generically
predicts light gluinos and heavy squarks, with an inverted scalar mass
hierarchy. We hence expect large rates for gluino pair production followed by
decays to final states with large b-jet multiplicity. For 0.2 fb^-1 of
integrated luminosity, we find a 5 sigma discovery reach of m(gluino) ~ 400 GeV
even if missing transverse energy, E_T^miss, is not a viable cut variable, by
examining the multi-b-jet final state. A corroborating signal should stand out
in the opposite-sign (OS) dimuon channel in the case of the HS model; the DR3
model will require higher integrated luminosity to yield a signal in the OS
dimuon channel. This region may also be probed by the Tevatron with 5-10 fb^-1
of data, if a corresponding search in the multi-b+ E_T^miss channel is
performed. With higher integrated luminosities of ~1 fb^-1, using E_T^miss plus
a large multiplicity of b-jets, LHC should be able to discover Yukawa-unified
SUSY with m(gluino) up to about 630 GeV. Thus, the year 1 LHC reach for
Yukawa-unified SUSY should be enough to either claim a discovery of the gluino,
or to very nearly rule out this class of models, since higher values of
m(gluino) lead to rather poor Yukawa unification.Comment: 32 pages including 31 EPS figure
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