https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4810-0
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Likelihood analysis of the minimal AMSB model
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DESY, Notkestraße 85, 22607, Hamburg, Germany
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Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15706, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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Science Laboratories, Department of Physics, Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, University of Durham, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
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Faculty of Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Warsaw, ul. Pasteura 5, 02-093, Warsaw, Poland
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High Energy Physics Group, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, Prince Consort Road, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL, 60510, USA
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Physics Department, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60607-7059, USA
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Experimental Physics Department, CERN, 1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland
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Antwerp University, 2610, Wilrijk, Belgium
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ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale, School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 3010, Australia
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Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology Group, Department of Physics, King’s College London, London, WC2R 2LS, UK
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Theoretical Physics Department, CERN, 1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland
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H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol, BS8 1TL, UK
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Campus of International Excellence UAM+CSIC, Cantoblanco, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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Instituto de Física Teórica UAM-CSIC, C/ Nicolas Cabrera 13-15, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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Instituto de Física de Cantabria (CSIC-UC), Avda. de Los Castros s/n, 39005, Cantabria, Spain
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Physik-Institut, Universität Zürich, 8057, Zurich, Switzerland
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Kavli IPMU (WPI), UTIAS, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, 277-8583, Japan
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William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA
* e-mail: martino.borsato@cern.ch
Received:
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December
2016
Accepted:
5
April
2017
Published online:
27
April
2017
We perform a likelihood analysis of the minimal anomaly-mediated supersymmetry-breaking (mAMSB) model using constraints from cosmology and accelerator experiments. We find that either a wino-like or a Higgsino-like neutralino LSP, , may provide the cold dark matter (DM), both with similar likelihoods. The upper limit on the DM density from Planck and other experiments enforces
after the inclusion of Sommerfeld enhancement in its annihilations. If most of the cold DM density is provided by the
, the measured value of the Higgs mass favours a limited range of
(and also for
if
) but the scalar mass
is poorly constrained. In the wino-LSP case,
is constrained to about
and
to
, whereas in the Higgsino-LSP case
has just a lower limit
(
) and
is constrained to
in the
(
) scenario. In neither case can the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon,
, be improved significantly relative to its Standard Model (SM) value, nor do flavour measurements constrain the model significantly, and there are poor prospects for discovering supersymmetric particles at the LHC, though there are some prospects for direct DM detection. On the other hand, if the
contributes only a fraction of the cold DM density, future LHC [see pdf] -based searches for gluinos, squarks and heavier chargino and neutralino states as well as disappearing track searches in the wino-like LSP region will be relevant, and interference effects enable
to agree with the data better than in the SM in the case of wino-like DM with
.
© The Author(s), 2017