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The current status of fine-tuning in supersymmetry

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-02-19 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

In this paper, we minimize and compare two different fine-tuning measures in four high-scale supersymmetric models that are embedded in the MSSM. In addition, we determine the impact of current and future dark matter direct detection and collider experiments on the fine-tuning. We then compare the low-scale electroweak measure with the high-scale Barbieri-Giudice measure, which generally do not agree. However, we find that they do reduce to the same value when the higgsino parameter drives the degree of fine-tuning. Depending on the high-scale model and fine-tuning definition, we find a minimal fine-tuning of 3383-38 (corresponding to O(101)%\mathcal{O}(10-1)\%) for the low-scale measure, and 6357163-571 (corresponding to O(10.1)%\mathcal{O}(1-0.1)\%) for the high-scale measure. In addition, minimally fine-tuned spectra give rise to a dark matter relic density that is between 103<Ωh2<110^{-3} < \Omega h^2 < 1, when μ\mu determines the minimum of the fine-tuning. We stress that it is too early to conclude on the fate of supersymmetry, based only on the fine-tuning paradigm.

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@article{arxiv.1906.10706,
  title  = {The current status of fine-tuning in supersymmetry},
  author = {Melissa van Beekveld and Sascha Caron and Roberto Ruiz de Austri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.10706},
  year   = {2020}
}