Viable and simplified semi-direct gauge mediation with the 4-1 model

TL;DR

This paper introduces a simplified, phenomenologically viable extension of the 4-1 model for dynamical supersymmetry breaking, where direct couplings generate comparable gaugino and sfermion masses, and discusses electroweak symmetry breaking.

Contribution

It proposes a minimal extension of the 4-1 model with direct matter-messenger couplings, providing explicit formulas for soft terms and a simple Higgs sector realization.

Findings

Gaugino masses are comparable to sfermion masses despite loop suppression.

A simple Higgs sector model enabling electroweak symmetry breaking is presented.

Explicit formulas for A-terms and scalar masses with general matter-messenger couplings are provided.

Abstract

We present a simple and phenomenologically acceptable extension of the 4-1 model of dynamical supersymmetry breaking, in which messengers and MSSM superfields are directly coupled to the hidden sector without participating in the supersymmetry breaking mechanism; although parametrically suppressed by a loop factor, gaugino masses turn out to be comparable to sfermion masses because of the presence of enhancing factors ultimately due to the different origin of the gaugino and the sfermion mass terms. We also describe what can be considered the simplest realization of the Higgs sector and how electroweak symmetry breaking can take place in this model. Finally, in the Appendix, we have listed a set of closed-form expressions for the computation of $A$-terms and soft squared masses of light scalars at the messenger scale in the presence of the most general form of "matter-messenger" couplings, extending in this way some results already known from the literature.