SUSY Without Prejudice at Linear Colliders

TL;DR

This paper investigates the parameter space of the pMSSM, a general CP-conserving MSSM variant, under current experimental constraints, and discusses implications for future linear collider experiments.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive scan of the pMSSM parameter space considering existing constraints and compares flat and log prior scans, offering insights for future collider studies.

Findings

Similar conclusions from flat and log prior scans

LEP and Tevatron constraints significantly shape the model samples

Implications for future TeV-scale linear colliders are discussed

Abstract

We explore the physics of the general CP-conserving MSSM with Minimal Flavor Violation, the pMSSM. The 19 soft SUSY breaking parameters are chosen so to satisfy all existing experimental and theoretical constraints assuming that the WIMP is the lightest neutralino. We scan this parameter space twice using both flat and log priors and compare the results which yield similar conclusions. Constraints from both LEP and the Tevatron play an important role in obtaining our final model samples. Implications for future TeV-scale $e^+e^-$ linear colliders(LC) are discussed.