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Electroweak versus high scale finetuning in the 19-parameter SUGRA model

Howard Baer·Vernon Barger·Maren Padeffke-Kirkland
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Recently, two measures of electroweak finetuning (EWFT) have been introduced for SUSY models: Δ_{EW} compares the Z mass to each separate weak scale contribution to m_Z while Δ_{HS} compares the Z mass to high scale input parameters and their consequent renormalizaton group evolution (1/Δis the % of fine tuning). While the paradigm mSUGRA/CMSSM model has been shown to be highly finetuned under both parameters (Δ_{EW}> 10^2 and Δ_{HS}> 10^3), the two-parameter non-universal Higgs model (NUHM2) in the context of radiatively-driven natural SUSY (RNS) enjoys Δ_{EW} as low as 10, while Δ_{HS} remains > 10^3. We investigate finetuning in the 19-free-parameter SUGRA model (SUGRA19). We find that with 19 free parameters, the lowest Δ_{EW} points are comparable to what can be achieved in NUHM2 with just 6 free parameters. However, in SUGRA19, Δ_{HS} can now also reach as low as 5-10. The conditions which lead to low Δ_{HS} include m_{H_u} m_Z at the high scale, with non-universal gaugino masses M_{1,2}>> M_3 also at m_{GUT}. The low Δ_{HS} models are severely constrained by b\to sγbranching fraction. In both cases of low Δ_{EW} and Δ_{HS}, the superpotential μparameter should be \sim 100-300 GeV. While SUSY models with low EWFT may or may not be discoverable at LHC, the predicted light higgsinos must show up at a linear e^+e^- collider with \sqrt{s}> 2|μ|.

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Howard Baer, Vernon Barger, Maren Padeffke-Kirkland. 2013-05-02. Electroweak versus high scale finetuning in the 19-parameter SUGRA model. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.88.055026

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