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Testing Times for Supersymmetry: Looking Under the Lamp Post

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-15 v3

Abstract

We make a critical study of two highly-constrained models of supersymmetry --- the constrained minimal supersymmetric standard model (cMSSM), and the non-universal Higgs mass model (NUHM) --- in the light of the 125-126 GeV Higgs boson, the first observation of BsμμB_s \to \mu\mu at the LHCb, and the updated BτνB \to \tau \nu branching ratio at BELLE. It turns out that these models are still allowed by the experimental data, even if we demand that there be a light stop with mass less than 1.5 TeV. The only significant effects of all these constraints are to push the mass of the light stop above 500\sim 500 GeV, and to prefer the universal trilinear coupling A0A_0 to be large and negative. We calculate the Higgs boson branching ratios to WW,ZZ,ττWW, ZZ, \tau\tau and γγ\gamma\gamma in these models and show that improved experimental limits on these could put them to the most stringent experimental tests yet.

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@article{arxiv.1303.0721,
  title  = {Testing Times for Supersymmetry: Looking Under the Lamp Post},
  author = {Amol Dighe and Diptimoy Ghosh and Ketan M. Patel and Sreerup Raychaudhuri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.0721},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Updated version consistent with recent data, a few references added

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