Enrico Bertuzzo

A non standard supersymmetric spectrum

Taking a bottom-up point of view and focussing on the lack of signals so far in the Higgs and in the flavour sectors, we argue in favour of giving consideration to supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model where the lightest Higgs boson has a mass between 200 and 300 GeV and the first two generations of s-fermions are above 20TeV. After examining the simplest extensions of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model that allow this in a natural way, we summarize the main consequences of this pattern of masses at the LHC and we analyze the consequences of a heavier than normal Higgs boson for Dark Matter.

Dirac gauginos, R symmetry and the 125 GeV Higgs

A bstractWe study a supersymmetric scenario with a quasi exact R-symmetry in light of the discovery of a Higgs resonance with a mass of 125 GeV. In such a framework, the additional adjoint superfields, needed to give Dirac masses to the gauginos, contribute both to the Higgs mass and to electroweak precision observables. We analyze the interplay between the two aspects, finding regions in parameter space in which the contributions to the precision observables are under control and a 125 GeV Higgs boson can be accommodated. We estimate the fine-tuning of the model finding regions of the parameter space still unexplored by the LHC with a fine-tuning considerably improved with respect to the minimal supersymmetric scenario. In particular, sizable non-holomorphic (non-supersoft) adjoints masses are required to reduce the fine-tuning.

Minimal flavour violation with hierarchical squark masses

In a supersymmetric model with hierarchical squark masses we analyze a pattern of flavour symmetry breaking centered on the special role of the top Yukawa coupling and, by extension, of the full Yukawa couplings for the up-type quarks. For sufficiently heavy squarks of the first and second generation this leads to effective Minimal Flavour Violation of the Flavour Changing Neutral Current amplitudes. For this to happen we determine the bounds on the masses of the heavy squarks with QCD corrections taken into account, properly including previously neglected effects. We believe that the view presented in this paper altogether strengthens the case for hierarchical sfermions.

Fitting neutrino physics with a U(1)R lepton number

A bstractWe study neutrino physics in the context of a supersymmetric model where a continuous R-symmetry is identified with the total Lepton Number and one sneutrino can thus play the role of the down type Higgs. We show that R-breaking effects communicated to the visible sector by Anomaly Mediation can reproduce neutrino masses and mixing solely via radiative contributions, without requiring any additional degree of freedom. In particular, a relatively large reactor angle (as recently observed by the Daya Bay collaboration) can be accommodated in ample regions of the parameter space. On the contrary, if the R-breaking is communicated to the visible sector by gravitational effects at the Planck scale, additional particles are necessary to accommodate neutrino data.

On Composite Two Higgs Doublet Models

A bstractWe investigate the issue of anomalous contribution to the T parameter and to Flavor Changing Neutral Currents in models with two Higgs doublets arising as composite pseudo Nambu-Goldstone modes. The non linear Lagrangians of several models are explicitly derived and the anomalous contributions to T are identified. The breaking patterns SU(5) → SU(4) × U(1) and SU(5) → SU(4), are analyzed first and we show how anomalous contributions to T arise in both models. Apart from that, the embedding of the Standard Model fermions in a 10 of SU(5) avoids at the same time large corrections to the

Higgs boson signals in lambda-SUSY with a Scale Invariant Superpotential

Zb\overline{b}

Natural SM-like 126 GeV Higgs boson via nondecoupling D terms

coupling and Flavor Changing Neutral Current transitions. Finally, we propose a model based on the breaking SO(9)/SO(8) that is free from anomalous contributions to T and in which the problems of the

A natural SM-like 126 GeV Higgs via non-decoupling D-terms

Zb\overline{b}

On the QCD corrections to ΔF=2 FCNC in the supersymmetric SM with hierarchical squark masses

coupling and of Flavor Changing Neutral Currents can be simultaneously solved.

Detecting the Higgs boson(s) in λSUSY

We reconsider the SUSY model, in which the mass of the Higgs boson is raised already at tree level up to about 200 GeV via an additional interaction in the superpotential between the Higgs bosons and a Singlet, focusing on a scale invariant superpotential. After a detailed analysis of the allowed region in parameter space, which includes constraints coming from the absence of spontaneous CP violation and of unrealistic minima, we study the scalar mass spectrum, the production rate and the decay modes of the lightest scalar, nding that in general both the production rate and the Branching Ratio into gauge bosons can be reduced with respect of those of the standard Higgs, causing it to be hardly detected in the rst run of the LHC.