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Title: Threshold corrections to the radiative breaking of electroweak symmetry and neutralino dark matter in supersymmetric seesaw model

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
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  1. School of Liberal Arts, Seoul National University of Technology, Seoul 139-473 (Korea, Republic of)
  2. Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, 739-8526 (Japan)

We study the radiative electroweak symmetry breaking and the relic abundance of neutralino dark matter in the supersymmetric type I seesaw model. In this model, there exist threshold corrections to Higgs bilinear terms coming from heavy singlet sneutrino loops, which make the soft supersymmetry breaking (SSB) mass for up-type Higgs shift at the seesaw scale and thus a minimization condition for the Higgs potential is affected. We show that the required fine-tuning between the Higgsino mass parameter {mu} and the SSB mass for up-type Higgs may be reduced at the electroweak scale, due to the threshold corrections. We also present how the parameter {mu} depends on the SSB B-parameter for heavy singlet sneutrinos. Since the property of neutralino dark matter is quite sensitive to the size of {mu}, we discuss how the relic abundance of neutralino dark matter is affected by the SSB B-parameter. Taking the SSB B-parameter of order of a few hundreds TeV, the required relic abundance of neutralino dark matter can be correctly achieved. In this case, dark matter is a mixture of bino and Higgsino, under the condition that gaugino masses are universal at the grand unification scale.

OSTI ID:
21409013
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 81, Issue 1; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.016011; (c) 2010 The American Physical Society; ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English