Testing Times for Supersymmetry: Looking Under the Lamp POST
Abstract
We make a critical study of two highly-constrained models of supersymmetry — the constrained minimal supersymmetric standard model (cMSSM), and the nonuniversal Higgs mass (NUHM) model — in the light of the 125-126 GeV Higgs boson, the first observation of Bs→μμ at the LHCb, and the updated B → τν branching ratio at BELLE. It turns out that these models are still allowed by the experimental data, even if we demand that there be a light stop with mass less than 1.5 TeV. The only significant effects of all these constraints are to push the mass of the light stop above 500 GeV, and to prefer the universal trilinear coupling A0 to be large and negative. We calculate the Higgs boson branching ratios to WW, ZZ, ττ and γγ in these models and show that improved experimental limits on these could put them to the most stringent experimental tests yet.
- Publication:
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International Journal of Modern Physics A
- Pub Date:
- October 2013
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1303.0721
- Bibcode:
- 2013IJMPA..2850134D
- Keywords:
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- Supersymmetry;
- Higgs boson;
- B-meson decays;
- 12.60.Jv;
- 13.85.Rm;
- 14.80.Ly;
- 14.80.Nb;
- Supersymmetric models;
- Limits on production of particles;
- Supersymmetric partners of known particles;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- Updated version consistent with recent data, a few references added