Left-right supersymmetry after the Higgs boson discovery

TL;DR

This paper thoroughly analyzes the minimal left-right supersymmetric model's parameter space, ensuring compatibility with LHC data, and explores the implications for Higgs decay modes and mass spectra.

Contribution

It provides a detailed parameter space analysis of the LRSUSY model with LHC constraints, highlighting unique decay mode correlations and scalar contributions.

Findings

Higgs decay signals are correlated or anti-correlated as predicted.

Singly-charged scalars dominate the loop contributions in certain Higgs decays.

Mass spectrum predictions are made for future experimental measurements.

Abstract

We perform a thorough analysis of the parameter space of the minimal left-right supersymmetric model in agreement with the LHC data. The model contains left- and right-handed fermionic doublets, two Higgs bidoublets, two Higgs triplet representations, and one singlet, insuring a charge-conserving vacuum. We impose the condition that the model complies with the experimental constraints on supersymmetric particles masses and on the doubly-charged Higgs bosons, and require that the parameter space of the model satisfy the LHC data on neutral Higgs signal strengths at $2\sigma$. We choose benchmark scenarios by fixing some basic parameters and scanning over the rest. The LSP in our scenarios is always the lightest neutralino. We find that the signals for $H\to \gamma \gamma$ and $H \to VV^\star$ are correlated, while $H \to b \bar b$ is anti-correlated with all the other decay modes, and also that the contribution from singly-charged scalars dominate that of the doubly-charged scalars in $H\to \gamma \gamma$ and $H \to Z\gamma$ loops, contrary to Type-II seesaw models. We also illustrate the range for mass spectrum of the LRSUSY model in light of planned measurements of the branching ratio of $H\to \gamma \gamma$ to 10% level.