Selecting a Model of Supersymmetry Breaking Mediation

TL;DR

This paper compares different supersymmetry breaking models using current data, highlighting the influence of dark matter assumptions and providing constraints on model parameters.

Contribution

It evaluates Bayesian evidence for four supersymmetry breaking scenarios and explores dark matter phenomenology within these models.

Findings

Minimal anomaly mediation is favored over the CMSSM under certain dark matter assumptions.

Evidence for a positive mu parameter sign is only moderate.

Provides new constraints on anomaly and gauge mediated parameter spaces.

Abstract

We study the problem of selecting between different mechanisms of supersymmetry breaking in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model using current data. We evaluate the Bayesian evidence of four supersymmetry breaking scenarios: mSUGRA, mGMSB, mAMSB and moduli mediation. The results show a strong dependence on the dark matter assumption. Using the inferred cosmological relic density as an upper bound, minimal anomaly mediation is at least moderately favoured over the CMSSM. Our fits also indicate that evidence for a positive sign of the mu parameter is moderate at best. We present constraints on the anomaly and gauge mediated parameter spaces and some previously unexplored aspects of the dark matter phenomenology of the moduli mediation scenario. We use sparticle searches, indirect observables and dark matter observables in the global fit and quantify robustness with respect to prior choice. We quantify how much information is contained within each constraint.