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D-Terms, Unification, and the Higgs Mass

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-25 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study gauge extensions of the MSSM that contain non-decoupling D-terms, which contribute to the Higgs boson mass. These models naturally maintain gauge coupling unification and raise the Higgs mass without fine-tuning. Unification constrains the structure of the gauge extensions, limiting the Higgs mass in these models to roughly less than 150 GeV. The D-terms contribute to the Higgs mass only if the extended gauge symmetry is broken at energies of a few TeV, leading to new heavy gauge bosons in this mass range.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0409127,
  title  = {D-Terms, Unification, and the Higgs Mass},
  author = {Alexander Maloney and Aaron Pierce and Jay G. Wacker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0409127},
  year   = {2015}
}

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30+1 pages, 7 figures

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