TY - JOUR
T1 - What if supersymmetry breaking appears below the GUT scale?
AU - Ellis, John
AU - Olive, Keith A.
AU - Sandick, Pearl
N1 - Funding Information:
The work of K.A.O. and P.S. was supported in part by DOE grant DE-FG02-94ER-40823.
PY - 2006/11/16
Y1 - 2006/11/16
N2 - We consider the possibility that the soft supersymmetry-breaking parameters m1 / 2 and m0 of the MSSM are universal at some scale Min below the supersymmetric grand unification scale MGUT, as might occur in scenarios where either the primordial supersymmetry-breaking mechanism or its communication to the observable sector involve a dynamical scale below MGUT. We analyze the (m1 / 2, m0) planes of such sub-GUT CMSSM models, noting the dependences of phenomenological, experimental and cosmological constraints on Min. In particular, we find that the coannihilation, focus-point and rapid-annihilation funnel regions of the GUT-scale CMSSM approach and merge when Min ∼ 1012 GeV. We discuss sparticle spectra and the possible sensitivity of LHC measurements to the value of Min.
AB - We consider the possibility that the soft supersymmetry-breaking parameters m1 / 2 and m0 of the MSSM are universal at some scale Min below the supersymmetric grand unification scale MGUT, as might occur in scenarios where either the primordial supersymmetry-breaking mechanism or its communication to the observable sector involve a dynamical scale below MGUT. We analyze the (m1 / 2, m0) planes of such sub-GUT CMSSM models, noting the dependences of phenomenological, experimental and cosmological constraints on Min. In particular, we find that the coannihilation, focus-point and rapid-annihilation funnel regions of the GUT-scale CMSSM approach and merge when Min ∼ 1012 GeV. We discuss sparticle spectra and the possible sensitivity of LHC measurements to the value of Min.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.physletb.2006.09.043
DO - 10.1016/j.physletb.2006.09.043
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33750465514
SN - 0370-2693
VL - 642
SP - 389
EP - 399
JO - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
IS - 4
ER -