Publication Date:
2014-12-17
Description:
We make a frequentist analysis of the parameter space of the NUHM2, in which the soft supersymmetry (SUSY)-breaking contributions to the masses of the two Higgs multiplets, \(m^2_{H_{u,d}}\) , vary independently from the universal soft SUSY-breaking contributions \(m^2_0\) to the masses of squarks and sleptons. Our analysis uses the MultiNest sampling algorithm with over \(4 \times 10^8\) points to sample the NUHM2 parameter space. It includes the ATLAS and CMS Higgs mass measurements as well as the ATLAS search for supersymmetric jets + \({/\!\!E}_T\) signals using the full LHC Run 1 data, the measurements of \(\mathrm{BR}(B_s \rightarrow \mu ^+\mu ^-)\) by LHCb and CMS together with other B-physics observables, electroweak precision observables and the XENON100 and LUX searches for spin-independent dark-matter scattering. We find that the preferred regions of the NUHM2 parameter space have negative SUSY-breaking scalar masses squared at the GUT scale for squarks and sleptons, \(m_0^2 〈 0\) , as well as \(m^2_{H_u} 〈 m^2_{H_d} 〈 0\) . The tension present in the CMSSM and NUHM1 between the supersymmetric interpretation of \((g-2)_\mu \) and the absence to date of SUSY at the LHC is not significantly alleviated in the NUHM2. We find that the minimum \(\chi ^2 = 32.5\) with 21 degrees of freedom (dof) in the NUHM2, to be compared with \(\chi ^2/\mathrm{dof} = 35.0/23\) in the CMSSM, and \(\chi ^2/\mathrm{dof} = 32.7/22\) in the NUHM1. We find that the one-dimensional likelihood functions for sparticle masses and other observables are similar to those found previously in the CMSSM and NUHM1.
Print ISSN:
1434-6044
Electronic ISSN:
1434-6052
Topics:
Physics
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