https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6658-y
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Supersymmetric models in light of improved Higgs mass calculations
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Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232, Villigen, Switzerland
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Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Föhringer Ring 6, 80805, Munich, Germany
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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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National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Rävala 10, 10143, Tallinn, Estonia
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Theory Division, CERN, 1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland
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School of Physics, KIAS, Seoul, 130-722, Korea
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Instituto de Física Teórica, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Cantoblanco, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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Campus of International Excellence UAM+CSIC, Cantoblanco, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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Instituto de Física de Cantabria (CSIC-UC), 39005, Santander, Spain
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William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA
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Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Énergies (LPTHE), UMR 7589, 4 Place Jussieu, 75252, Paris CEDEX 05, France
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CP3-Origins, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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DESY, Notkestr. 85, 22607, Hamburg, Germany
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Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
* e-mail: Sven.Heinemeyer@cern.ch
Received:
5
November
2018
Accepted:
5
February
2019
Published online:
19
February
2019
We discuss the parameter spaces of supersymmetry (SUSY) scenarios taking into account the improved Higgs-mass prediction provided by FeynHiggs 2.14.1. Among other improvements, this prediction incorporates three-loop renormalization-group effects and two-loop threshold corrections, and can accommodate three separate mass scales: 
(for squarks), 
(for gluinos) and 
(for electroweakinos). Furthermore, it contains an improved treatment of the 
scalar top parameters avoiding problems with the conversion to on-shell parameters, that yields more accurate results for large SUSY-breaking scales. We first consider the CMSSM, in which the soft SUSY-breaking parameters 
and 
are universal at the GUT scale, and then sub-GUT models in which universality is imposed at some lower scale. In both cases, we consider the constraints from the Higgs-boson mass 
in the bulk of the 
plane and also along stop coannihilation strips where sparticle masses may extend into the multi-TeV range. We then consider the minimal anomaly-mediated SUSY-breaking scenario, in which large sparticle masses are generic. In all these scenarios the substantial improvements between the calculations of in FeynHiggs 2.14.1 and FeynHiggs 2.10.0, which was used in an earlier study, change significantly the preferred portions of the models’ parameter spaces. Finally, we consider the pMSSM11, in which sparticle masses may be significantly smaller and we find only small changes in the preferred regions of parameter space.
© The Author(s), 2019
