High-scale supersymmetry, the Higgs boson mass, and gauge unification

Ellis, Sebastian A. R.; Wells, James D.

doi:10.1103/physrevd.96.055024

High-scale supersymmetry, the Higgs boson mass, and gauge unification

Journal Article · Mon Sep 18 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Physical Review D

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.96.055024· OSTI ID:1648029

Ellis, Sebastian A. R. ^[1]; Wells, James D. ^[2]

Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States); Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany); University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI
Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States); Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany)

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.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0007859

OSTI ID:: 1648029

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1536379
OSTI ID: 1392157

Journal Information:: Physical Review D, Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 96; ISSN 2470-0010; ISSN 2470-0029

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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