How alive is constrained SUSY really?
Abstract
Constrained supersymmetric models like the CMSSM might look less attractive nowadays because of fine tuning arguments. They also might look less probable in terms of Bayesian statistics. The question how well the model under study describes the data, however, is answered by frequentist p-values. Thus, for the first time, we calculate a p-value for a supersymmetric model by performing dedicated global toy fits. We combine constraints from low-energy and astrophysical observables, Higgs boson mass and rate measurements as well as the non-observation of new physics in searches for supersymmetry at the LHC. Using the framework Fittino, we perform global fits of the CMSSM to the toy data and find that this model is excluded at more than 95% confidence level.
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@article{arxiv.1410.6035,
title = {How alive is constrained SUSY really?},
author = {Philip Bechtle and Klaus Desch and Herbert K. Dreiner and Matthias Hamer and Michael Krämer and Ben O'Leary and Werner Porod and Björn Sarrazin and Tim Stefaniak and Mathias Uhlenbrock and Peter Wienemann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.6035},
year = {2014}
}
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6 pages, 7 figures; To appear in the Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP 2014), 2-9 July 2014, Valencia, Spain