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Updated Constraints on the Minimal Supergravity Model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-02-03 v2 Astrophysics

Abstract

We provide an up-to-date analysis of the parameter space of the minimal supergravity model (mSUGRA). Novel features include the new central value of the top quark mass, an improved calculation of the masses of the supersymmetric particles and the neutral Higgs bosons, constraints from b to s \ell^+ \ell^- decays, and a careful treatment of the most important experimental and theoretical uncertainties. In addition to the by now traditional plots of the allowed region in the (m_0, m_{1/2}) plane, we show allowed regions in the planes spanned by pairs of {\em physical} sparticle or Higgs boson masses. Moreover, we search for the minimal allowed masses of new particles for various sets of constraints. We find that in many cases the direct experimental limits from collider and Dark Matter searches can be saturated even in this minimal model, and even after including the by now quite restrictive constraint on the Dark Matter relic density.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0602001,
  title  = {Updated Constraints on the Minimal Supergravity Model},
  author = {Abdelhak Djouadi and Manuel Drees and Jean-Loic Kneur},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0602001},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

About 35 pages, numerous postscript figures. Corrected a few typos and added two historical references; version to appear in JHEP