Towards gauge unified, supersymmetric hidden strong dynamics

TL;DR

This paper proposes a model where new scalar messengers charged under both the Standard Model and a hidden strong force mediate supersymmetry breaking, with potential dark matter candidates and distinctive collider signatures.

Contribution

It introduces a novel gauge mediation framework with scalars forming bound states due to hidden strong dynamics, unifying gauge interactions and addressing supersymmetry breaking.

Findings

New scalars form bound states that evade direct supersymmetry searches.

Potential dark matter candidates emerge from hidden strong dynamics.

Distinctive collider signatures like diphoton and dijet signals are predicted.

Abstract

We consider a class of models with extra complex scalars that are charged under both the Standard Model and a hidden strongly coupled $SU(N)_H$ gauge sector, and discuss the scenarios where the new scalars are identified as the messenger fields that mediate the spontaneously broken supersymmetries from the hidden sector to the visible sector. The new scalars are embedded into 5-plets and 10-plets of an $SU(5)_V$ gauge group that potentially unifies the Standard Model gauge groups. The Higgs bosons remain as elementary particles. In the supersymmetrized version of this class of models, vector-like fermions whose left-handed components are superperpartners of the new scalars are introduced. Due to the hidden strong force, the new low-energy scalars hadronize before decaying and thus evade the common direct searches of the supersymmetric squarks. This can be seen as a gauge mediation scenario with the scalar messenger fields forming low-energy bound states. We also discuss the possibility that among the tower of bound states formed under hidden strong dynamics (at least the TeV scale) one of them is the dark matter candidate, as well as the collider signatures (e.g. diphoton, diboson or dijet) of the models that may show up in the near future.