Comparatively Light Extra Higgs States as Signature of SUSY $\mathrm{SO}(10)$ GUTs with 3rd Family Yukawa Unification

TL;DR

This paper explores how third family Yukawa unification in SUSY SO(10) GUTs predicts a spectrum where the lightest new particles are extra Higgs bosons, potentially detectable at future colliders, serving as signatures of the GUT framework.

Contribution

It demonstrates that in SUSY SO(10) GUTs with third family Yukawa unification, the lightest new particles are the extra Higgs states, a robust prediction sensitive to Yukawa unification accuracy.

Findings

Extra MSSM Higgses are predicted to be lighter than other superpartners.

These Higgses could be within reach of future collider searches, especially via ditau decay channels.

The scenario remains viable with small deviations from exact Yukawa unification.

Abstract

We study $3$rd family Yukawa unification in the context of supersymmetric (SUSY) $\mathrm{SO}(10)$ GUTs and $\mathrm{SO}(10)$-motivated boundary conditions for the SUSY-breaking soft terms. We consider $\mu<0$ such that the SUSY loop-threshold effects enable a good fit to all third family masses of the charged Standard Model (SM) fermions. We find that fitting the third family masses together with the mass of the SM-like Higgs particle, the scenario predicts the masses of the superpartner particles and of the extra Higgs states of the MSSM: while the sparticles are predicted to be comparatively heavy (above the present LHC bound but within reach of future colliders), the spectrum has the characteristic feature that the lightest new particles are the extra MSSM Higgses. We show that this effect is rather robust with respect to many deformations of the GUT boundary conditions, but turns out to be sensitive to the exactness of top-bottom Yukawa unification. Nevertheless, with moderate deviations of a few percent from exact top-bottom Yukawa unification (stemming e.g.\ from GUT-threshold corrections or higher-dimensional operators), the scenario still predicts extra MSSM Higgs particles with masses not much above $1.5\,\mathrm{TeV}$, which could be tested e.g.\ by future LHC searches for ditau decays $H^0/A^{0}\to\tau\tau$. Finding the extra MSSM Higges before the other new MSSM particles could thus be a smoking gun for a Yukawa unified $\mathrm{SO}(10)$ GUT.