Zhaofeng Kang

On naturalness of the MSSM and NMSSM

A bstractWith a bottom-up approach, we consider naturalness in the MSSM and NMSSM. Assuming the light stops, the LHC gluino search implies that the degree of fine tuning in both models is less than 2.5%. Taking the LHC hints for the SM-like Higgs boson mass mh ~ 125 GeV seriously, we find that naturalness will favor the NMSSM. We study the Higgs boson mass for several scenarios in the NMSSM: (1) A large λ and the doublet-singlet Higgs boson mixing effect pushing upward or pulling downward mh. The former case can readily give the di-photon excess of the Higgs boson decay whereas the latter case can not. However, we point out that the former case has a new large fine-tuning related to strong λ−RGE running effect and vacuum stability. (2) A small λ and the mixing effect pushing mh upward. Naturalness status becomes worse and no significant di-photon excess can be obtained. In these scenarios, the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) as a dark matter candidate is strongly disfavored by the XENON100 experiment. Even if the LSP can be a viable dark matter candidate, there does exist fine-tuning. The above naturalness evaluation is based on a high mediation scale for supersymmetry breaking, whereas for a low mediation scale, fine-tuning can be improved by about one order.

Heavy standard model-like Higgs boson and a light stop from Yukawa-deflected gauge mediation

To obtain a standard model-like Higgs boson around 125 GeV in the minimal supersymmetric standard model with minimal gauge mediation of supersymmetry breaking (GMSB), a heavy stop at multi-TeV level is needed and incurs severe fine-tuning, which can be ameliorated in the framework of the deformed GMSB with visible-hidden direct Yukawa interactions (YGMSB). We examine some general features of the YGMSB and focus on the scenario with Higgs-messenger couplings (HYGMSB) which can automatically maintain the minimal flavor violation. It turns out that such a Yukawa mediation scenario can give a large -Lambda(t) and -m((t) over tildeL,R)(2), leading to a maximal stop mixing, and thus can readily give a light stop ((t) over tilde (1)) below the TeV scale. However, we find that in the minimal HYGMSB scenario, m(Hu)(2) is too large and then the electroweak symmetry breaking is inconsistent with the large stop mixing. To solve this problem, we modify the hidden sectors in two ways, adding a new strong gauge dynamics or introducing the (10, (10) over bar) messengers. For each case we present some numerical studies.

Light dark matter from the U(1)(X) sector in the NMSSM with gauge mediation

Cosmic ray anomalies observed by PAMELA and Fermi-LAT experiments may be interpreted by heavy (TeV-scale) dark matter annihilation enhanced by Sommerfeld effects mediated by a very light (sub-GeV) U(1)(X) gauge boson, while the recent direct searches from CoGeNT and DAMA/LIBRA experiments may indicate a rather light (similar to 7GeV) dark matter with weak interaction. Motivated by these apparently different scales, we consider a gauge mediated next-to-the minimal supersymmetric standard model (NMSSM) entended with a light U(1)(X) sector plus a heavy sector ((H) over barh, Hh), which can provide both a light (similar to 7GeV) and a heavy (TeV-scale) dark matter without introducing any ad hoc new scale. Through the Yukawa coupling between Hh and the messager fields, the U(1)(X) gauge symmetry is broken around the GeV scale radiatively and a large negative m(S)(2) is generated for the NMSSM singlet S. Furthermore, the small kinetic mixing parameter between U(1)(X) and U(1)(Y) is predicted to be theta similar to 10(-5) - 10(-6) after integrating out the messengers. Such a light dark matter, which can have a normal relic density from the late decay of the right-handed sneutrino (assumed to be the ordinary next-to-the lightest supersymmetric particle and thermally produced in the early Universe), can serve a good candidate to explain the recent CoGeNT and DAMA/LIBRA results.

Probing the CP-even Higgs sector via H-3 -> H2H1 in the natural next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard modelg

Zhaofeng Kang, ∗ Jinmian Li, † Tianjun Li, 3, 4, ‡ Da Liu, § and Jing Shu ¶ Center for High-Energy Physics, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, P. R. China State Key Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China School of Physical Electronics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, P. R. China George P. and Cynthia W. Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA (Dated: December 11, 2013)

Natural X-ray lines from the low scale supersymmetry breaking

Abstract In the supersymmetric models with low scale supersymmetry (SUSY) breaking where the gravitino mass is around keV, we show that the 3.5 keV X-ray lines can be explained naturally through several different mechanisms: (I) a keV scale dark gaugino plays the role of sterile neutrino in the presence of bilinear R-parity violation. Because the light dark gaugino obtains Majorana mass only via gravity mediation, it is a decaying warm dark matter (DM) candidate; (II) the compressed cold DM states, whose mass degeneracy is broken by gravity mediated SUSY breaking, emit such a line via the heavier one decay into the lighter one plus photon(s). A highly supersymmetric dark sector may readily provide such kind of system; (III) the light axino, whose mass again is around the gravitino mass, decays to neutrino plus gamma in the R-parity violating SUSY. Moreover, we comment on dark radiation from dark gaugino.

Higgs boson mass and complex sneutrino dark matter in the supersymmetric inverse seesaw models

A bstractThe discovery of a relatively heavy Standard Model (SM)-like Higgs boson challenges naturalness of the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) from both Higgs and dark matter (DM) sectors. We study these two aspects in the MSSM extended by the low-scale inverse seesaw mechanism. Firstly, it admits a sizable radiative contribution to the Higgs boson mass mh, up to ~4 GeV in the case of an IR-fixed point of the coupling YνLHuνc and a large sneutrino mixing. Secondly, the lightest sneutrino, highly complex as expected, is a viable thermal DM candidate. Owing to the correct DM relic density and the XENON100 experimental constraints, two scenarios survive: a Higgs-portal complex DM with mass lying around the Higgs pole or above W threshold, and a coannihilating DM with slim prospect of detection. Given an extra family of sneutrinos, both scenarios naturally work when we attempt to suppress the DM left-handed sneutrino component, confronting with enhancing mh.

New insights in the electroweak phase transition in the NMSSM

We perform a detailed semi-analytical analysis of the electroweak phase transition (EWPT) property in NMSSM, which serves as a good benchmark model in which the 126 GeV Higgs mixes with a singlet. In this case, a strongly first order electroweak phase transition (SFOEWPT) is achieved by the tree-level effects and the phase transition strength

Asymmetric origin for gravitino relic density in the hybrid gravity-gauge mediated supersymmetry breaking

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