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Setting Limits on Supersymmetry Using Simplified Models
Published on: November 15, 2013
Upper bounds on superpartner masses from upper bounds on the Higgs boson mass
M E Cabrera1, J A Casas, A Delgado
1Instituto de Física Teórica, IFT-UAM/CSIC, UAM, Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain. maria.cabrera@uam.es
Abstract:
The LHC is putting bounds on the Higgs boson mass. In this Letter we use those bounds to constrain the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) parameter space using the fact that, in supersymmetry, the Higgs mass is a function of the masses of sparticles, and therefore an upper bound on the Higgs mass translates into an upper bound for the masses for superpartners. We show that, although current bounds do not constrain the MSSM parameter space from above, once the Higgs mass bound improves big regions of this parameter space will be excluded, putting upper bounds on supersymmetry (SUSY) masses. On the other hand, for the case of split-SUSY we show that, for moderate or large tanβ, the present bounds on the Higgs mass imply that the common mass for scalars cannot be greater than 10(11) GeV. We show how these bounds will evolve as LHC continues to improve the limits on the Higgs mass.
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