750 GeV Diphotons and Supersymmetric Grand Unification

TL;DR

This paper explores supersymmetric models with grand unification that can explain the 750 GeV diphoton excess, highlighting the role of light sfermions and potential double resonance signatures.

Contribution

It introduces minimal supersymmetric extensions with light sfermions that enhance diphoton signals and predicts possible double resonance features consistent with LHC data.

Findings

Light sfermions increase diphoton cross section by up to seven times.

Likelihood analysis shows significance rising from 3.3σ to 3.9σ with double resonance.

Predictions for other diboson channels to be tested at LHC-13.

Abstract

We investigate the 750 GeV diphoton excess in terms of supersymmetric models which preserve grand unification in the ultraviolet. We show that minimal extensions of the MSSM by a singlet and a vector-like 5-plet or 10-plet of SU(5) can explain the observed signal while remaining perturbative up to the GUT scale. Different from previous analyses we rely on light sfermions in the loops which - compared to the analog non-supersymmetric models - enhance the diphoton cross section by up to a factor of seven. While the resonance decay width is narrow, mass splitting of the scalar and pseudoscalar components may result in a double resonance. We perform a likelihood analysis on the ATLAS and CMS data to show that the significance of the diphoton excess increases from 3.3 sigma (single narrow resonance) to 3.9 sigma for the double resonance. We also provide signal predictions in other diboson channels to be tested at LHC-13.