The MSSM with heavy scalars

TL;DR

This paper analyzes the MSSM with heavy scalars, focusing on mass spectrum calculations, phenomenology with non-universal gaugino masses, and implications for collider searches, dark matter, and particle decays.

Contribution

It provides a detailed mass spectrum calculation including radiative corrections and explores phenomenological differences with non-universal gaugino masses.

Findings

Mass spectrum includes one-loop corrections and leading logarithm resummation.

Non-universal gaugino masses lead to distinctive collider and decay signatures.

New channels for neutralino annihilation impact dark matter relic abundance.

Abstract

We perform a comprehensive analysis of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) in the scenario where the scalar partners of the fermions and the Higgs particles (except for the Standard-Model-like one) are assumed to be very heavy and are removed from the low-energy spectrum. We first summarize our determination of the mass spectrum, in which we include the one-loop radiative corrections and resum to all orders the leading logarithms of the large scalar masses, and describe the implementation of these features in the FORTRAN code SuSpect which calculates the masses and couplings of the MSSM particles. We then study in detail the phenomenology of the model in scenarios where the gaugino mass parameters are non-universal at the GUT scale, which leads to very interesting features that are not present in the widely studied case of universal gaugino mass parameters. We discuss the constraints from collider searches and high-precision measurements, the cosmological constraints on the relic abundance of the neutralino candidate for the Dark Matter in the Universe - where new and interesting channels for neutralino annihilation appear - and the gluino lifetime. We then analyze, in the case of non-universal gaugino masses, the decays of the Higgs boson (in particular decays into and contributions of SUSY particles), of charginos and neutralinos (in particular decays into Higgs bosons and photons) and of gluinos, and highlight the differences from the case of universal gaugino masses.