High-scale supersymmetry, the Higgs boson mass, and gauge unification
Abstract
Suppressing naturalness concerns, we discuss the compatibility requirements of high-scale supersymmetry breaking with the Higgs boson mass constraint and gauge coupling unification. We find that to accommodate superpartner masses significantly greater than the electroweak scale, one must introduce large nondegeneracy factors. These factors are enumerated for the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, and implications for the allowed forms of supersymmetry breaking are discussed. We find that superpartner masses of arbitrarily high values are allowed for suitable values of tan β and the nondegeneracy factors. Here, we also compute the large, but viable, threshold corrections that would be necessary at the unification scale for exact gauge coupling unification. Whether or not high-scale supersymmetry can be realized in this context is highly sensitive to the precise value of the top quark Yukawa coupling, highlighting the importance of future improvements in the top quark mass measurement.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States); Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1648029
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1392157
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0007859
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review D
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 96; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Extensions of Higgs sector; Grand unified models; Supersymmetric models
Citation Formats
Ellis, Sebastian A. R., and Wells, James D. High-scale supersymmetry, the Higgs boson mass, and gauge unification. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1103/physrevd.96.055024.
Ellis, Sebastian A. R., & Wells, James D. High-scale supersymmetry, the Higgs boson mass, and gauge unification. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.96.055024
Ellis, Sebastian A. R., and Wells, James D. Mon .
"High-scale supersymmetry, the Higgs boson mass, and gauge unification". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.96.055024. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1648029.
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title = {High-scale supersymmetry, the Higgs boson mass, and gauge unification},
author = {Ellis, Sebastian A. R. and Wells, James D.},
abstractNote = {Suppressing naturalness concerns, we discuss the compatibility requirements of high-scale supersymmetry breaking with the Higgs boson mass constraint and gauge coupling unification. We find that to accommodate superpartner masses significantly greater than the electroweak scale, one must introduce large nondegeneracy factors. These factors are enumerated for the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, and implications for the allowed forms of supersymmetry breaking are discussed. We find that superpartner masses of arbitrarily high values are allowed for suitable values of tan β and the nondegeneracy factors. Here, we also compute the large, but viable, threshold corrections that would be necessary at the unification scale for exact gauge coupling unification. Whether or not high-scale supersymmetry can be realized in this context is highly sensitive to the precise value of the top quark Yukawa coupling, highlighting the importance of future improvements in the top quark mass measurement.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevd.96.055024},
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number = 5,
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place = {United States},
year = {Mon Sep 18 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Mon Sep 18 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
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