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Natural Scherk-Schwarz theories of the weak scale

Journal Article · · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
 [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. Univ. of Oxford, Oxford (United Kingdom)
  2. Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States)
  3. Univ. of Oxford, Oxford (United Kingdom); Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States)
Natural supersymmetric theories of the weak scale are under growing pressure given present LHC constraints, raising the question of whether untuned supersymmetric (SUSY) solutions to the hierarchy problem are possible. In this paper, we explore a class of 5-dimensional natural SUSY theories in which SUSY is broken by the Scherk-Schwarz mechanism. We pedagogically explain how Scherk-Schwarz elegantly solves the traditional problems of 4-dimensional SUSY theories (based on the MSSM and its many variants) that usually result in an unsettling level of fine-tuning. The minimal Scherk-Schwarz set up possesses novel phenomenology, which we briefly outline. In this study, we show that achieving the observed physical Higgs mass motivates extra structure that does not significantly affect the level of tuning (always better than ~10%) and we explore three qualitatively different extensions: the addition of extra matter that couples to the Higgs, an extra U(1)' gauge group under which the Higgs is charged and an NMSSM-like solution to the Higgs mass problem.
Research Organization:
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP) (SC-25)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-07CH11359
OSTI ID:
1234897
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 22587521
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-PUB--15-526-T; arXiv eprint number arXiv:1510.07045
Journal Information:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online) Journal Issue: 12 Vol. 2015; ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer BerlinCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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