Neutral Naturalness with Bifundamental Gluinos

TL;DR

This paper investigates how bifundamental gluinos in a folded supersymmetry model can reduce Higgs mass tuning and discusses their detection prospects at the LHC, providing a direct test of one-loop neutral naturalness.

Contribution

It introduces a simple orbifold model with bifundamental gluinos that mitigate Higgs tuning and analyzes current and future collider constraints on these particles.

Findings

Bifundamental gluinos can be lighter than approximately 1.9 TeV while maintaining naturalness.

LHC searches already exclude bifundamental gluinos below 1.4 TeV.

Future colliders can probe other non-colored states related to the model.

Abstract

We study constraints on one-loop neutral naturalness at the LHC by considering gluon partners which are required to ameliorate the tuning in the Higgs mass-squared arising at two loops. This is done with a simple orbifold model of folded supersymmetry which not only contains color-neutral stops but also bifundamental gluinos that are charged under the Standard Model color group $SU(3)_C$ and a separate $SU(3)_C'$ group. The bifundamental gluinos reduce the Higgs mass tuning at two loops and maintain naturalness provided the gluinos are lighter than approximately 1.9 TeV for a 5 TeV cutoff scale. Limits from the LHC already forbid bifundamental gluinos below 1.4 TeV, and other non-colored states such as electroweakinos, $Z'$ bosons and dark sector bound states may be probed at future colliders. The search for bifundamental gluinos therefore provides a direct probe of one-loop neutral naturalness that can be fully explored at the LHC.