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MSSM Forecast for the LHC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-12-13 v2

Abstract

We perform a forecast of the MSSM with universal soft terms (CMSSM) for the LHC, based on an improved Bayesian analysis. We do not incorporate ad hoc measures of the fine-tuning to penalize unnatural possibilities: such penalization arises from the Bayesian analysis itself when the experimental value of MZM_Z is considered. This allows to scan the whole parameter space, allowing arbitrarily large soft terms. Still the low-energy region is statistically favoured (even before including dark matter or g-2 constraints). Contrary to other studies, the results are almost unaffected by changing the upper limits taken for the soft terms. The results are also remarkable stable when using flat or logarithmic priors, a fact that arises from the larger statistical weight of the low-energy region in both cases. Then we incorporate all the important experimental constrains to the analysis, obtaining a map of the probability density of the MSSM parameter space, i.e. the forecast of the MSSM. Since not all the experimental information is equally robust, we perform separate analyses depending on the group of observables used. When only the most robust ones are used, the favoured region of the parameter space contains a significant portion outside the LHC reach. This effect gets reinforced if the Higgs mass is not close to its present experimental limit and persits when dark matter constraints are included. Only when the g-2 constraint (based on e+ee^+e^- data) is considered, the preferred region (for μ>0\mu>0) is well inside the LHC scope. We also perform a Bayesian comparison of the positive- and negative-μ\mu possibilities.

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@article{arxiv.0911.4686,
  title  = {MSSM Forecast for the LHC},
  author = {Maria Eugenia Cabrera and Alberto Casas and Roberto Ruiz de Austri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.4686},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

42 pages: added figures and references

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