https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-2775-9
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
One-loop anomaly mediated scalar masses and 
in pure gravity mediation
1
School of Physics and Astronomy, William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA
2
ICRR, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, 277-8582, Japan
3
Kavli IPMU (WPI), TODIAS, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, 277-8583, Japan
* e-mail: jlevans@umn.edu
Received:
19
December
2013
Accepted:
29
January
2014
Published online:
25
February
2014
We consider the effects of non-universalities among sfermion generations in models of Pure Gravity Mediation (PGM). In PGM models and in many models with strongly stabilized moduli, the gravitino mass may be O(100) TeV, whereas gaugino masses, generated through anomalies at one loop, remain relatively light O(1) TeV. In models with scalar mass universality, input scalar masses are generally very heavy (
), resulting in a mass spectrum resembling that in split supersymmetry. However, if one adopts a no-scale or partial no-scale structure for the Kähler manifold, sfermion masses may vanish at the tree level. It is usually assumed that the leading order anomaly mediated contribution to scalar masses appears at two loops. However, there are at least two possible sources for one-loop scalar masses. These may arise if Pauli–Villars fields are introduced as messengers of supersymmetry breaking. We consider the consequences of a spectrum in which the scalar masses associated with the third generation are heavy (order 
) with one-loop scalar masses for the first two generations. A similar spectrum is expected to arise in GUT models based on 
where the first two generations of scalars act as pseudo-Nambu–Goldstone bosons. Explicit breaking of this symmetry by the gauge couplings then generates one-loop masses for the first two generations. In particular, we show that it may be possible to reconcile the 
discrepancy with potentially observable scalars and gauginos at the LHC.
© The Author(s), 2014
