https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-13129-2
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
NMSSM explanation for excesses in the search for neutralinos and charginos and a 95 GeV Higgs boson
1
IJCLab, CNRS/IN2P3, University Paris-Saclay, 91405, Orsay, France
2
LUPM, UMR 5299, CNRS/IN2P3, Université de Montpellier, 34095, Montpellier, France
3
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Highfield, SO17 1BJ, Southampton, UK
4
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, 75120, Uppsala, Sweden
Received:
13
May
2024
Accepted:
15
July
2024
Published online:
8
August
2024
The observed excesses in the search for neutralinos and charginos by ATLAS and CMS can be fitted simultaneously in the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) assuming a light higgsino mass, of magnitude less than about 250 GeV, and a compressed higgsino dominated neutralino and chargino spectrum, with 5–10% mass splittings. However, light higgsinos as dark matter would have far too large direct detection cross sections. We consider the Next-to-MSSM (NMSSM) with an additional singlino-like lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) a few GeV below the next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle (NLSP). Sparticles prefer to decay first into the NLSP and remnants from the final decay into the LSP are too soft to contribute to the observed signals. Co-annihilation in the higgsino-sector can generate a relic density in the WMAP/Planck window. The singlino-like LSP has automatically a direct detection cross section below present and future sensitivities: a direct detection signal in the near future would exclude this scenario. The singlet-like Higgs scalar of the NMSSM can have a mass around 95 GeV and signal cross sections in the 
channel at LEP and in the 
channel at the LHC compatible with the respective observations.
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