Likelihood Analysis of Supersymmetric SU(5) GUTs

TL;DR

This paper conducts a comprehensive likelihood analysis of supersymmetric SU(5) GUT models, integrating collider, astrophysical, and dark matter detection constraints to identify viable parameter regions and novel coannihilation mechanisms.

Contribution

It introduces a detailed 7-parameter SUSY SU(5) GUT model analysis, incorporating recent experimental constraints and discovering a new ${ ilde u_R}/{ ilde c_R} - ilde{chi}^0_1$ coannihilation mechanism.

Findings

Identification of a new ${ ilde u_R}/{ ilde c_R} - ilde{chi}^0_1$ coannihilation mechanism.

Complementarity between dark matter detection and LHC SUSY searches.

Constraints from recent 13 TeV LHC and direct detection experiments.

Abstract

We perform a likelihood analysis of the constraints from accelerator experiments and astrophysical observations on supersymmetric (SUSY) models with SU(5) boundary conditions on soft SUSY-breaking parameters at the GUT scale. The parameter space of the models studied has 7 parameters: a universal gaugino mass $m_{1/2}$, distinct masses for the scalar partners of matter fermions in five- and ten-dimensional representations of SU(5), $m_5$ and $m_{10}$, and for the $\mathbf{5}$ and $\mathbf{\bar 5}$ Higgs representations $m_{H_u}$ and $m_{H_d}$, a universal trilinear soft SUSY-breaking parameter $A_0$, and the ratio of Higgs vevs $\tan \beta$. In addition to previous constraints from direct sparticle searches, low-energy and flavour observables, we incorporate constraints based on preliminary results from 13 TeV LHC searches for jets + MET events and long-lived particles, as well as the latest PandaX-II and LUX searches for direct Dark Matter detection. In addition to previously-identified mechanisms for bringing the supersymmetric relic density into the range allowed by cosmology, we identify a novel ${\tilde u_R}/{\tilde c_R} - \tilde{\chi}^0_1$ coannihilation mechanism that appears in the supersymmetric SU(5) GUT model and discuss the role of ${\tilde \nu_\tau}$ coannihilation. We find complementarity between the prospects for direct Dark Matter detection and SUSY searches at the LHC.