The CMSSM and NUHM1 after LHC Run 1 Buchmueller, O.; Cavanaugh, R.; Roeck, A. De ...
European physical journal. C, Particles and fields,
06/2014, Volume:
74, Issue:
6
Journal Article
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We analyze the impact of data from the full Run 1 of the LHC at 7 and 8 TeV on the CMSSM with
μ
>
0
and
<
0
and the NUHM1 with
μ
>
0
, incorporating the constraints imposed by other experiments such ...as precision electroweak measurements, flavour measurements, the cosmological density of cold dark matter and the direct search for the scattering of dark matter particles in the LUX experiment. We use the following results from the LHC experiments: ATLAS searches for events with
E
/
T
accompanied by jets with the full 7 and 8 TeV data, the ATLAS and CMS measurements of the mass of the Higgs boson, the CMS searches for heavy neutral Higgs bosons and a combination of the LHCb and CMS measurements of
BR
(
B
s
→
μ
+
μ
-
)
and
BR
(
B
d
→
μ
+
μ
-
)
. Our results are based on samplings of the parameter spaces of the CMSSM for both
μ
>
0
and
μ
<
0
and of the NUHM1 for
μ
>
0
with 6.8
×
10
6
, 6.2
×
10
6
and 1.6
×
10
7
points, respectively, obtained using the MultiNest tool. The impact of the Higgs-mass constraint is assessed using FeynHiggs 2.10.0, which provides an improved prediction for the masses of the MSSM Higgs bosons in the region of heavy squark masses. It yields in general larger values of
M
h
than previous versions of FeynHiggs, reducing the pressure on the CMSSM and NUHM1. We find that the global
χ
2
functions for the supersymmetric models vary slowly over most of the parameter spaces allowed by the Higgs-mass and the
E
/
T
searches, with best-fit values that are comparable to the
χ
2
/
dof
for the best Standard Model fit. We provide 95 % CL lower limits on the masses of various sparticles and assess the prospects for observing them during Run 2 of the LHC.
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With the establishment and maturation of the experimental programs searching for new physics with sizeable couplings at the LHC, there is an increasing interest in the broader particle and ...astrophysics community for exploring the physics of light and feebly-interacting particles as a paradigm complementary to a New Physics sector at the TeV scale and beyond. FIPs 2020 has been the first workshop fully dedicated to the physics of feebly-interacting particles and was held virtually from 31 August to 4 September 2020. The workshop has gathered together experts from collider, beam dump, fixed target experiments, as well as from astrophysics, axions/ALPs searches, current/future neutrino experiments, and dark matter direct detection communities to discuss progress in experimental searches and underlying theory models for FIPs physics, and to enhance the cross-fertilisation across different fields. FIPs 2020 has been complemented by the topical workshop “Physics Beyond Colliders meets theory”, held at CERN from 7 June to 9 June 2020. This document presents the summary of the talks presented at the workshops and the outcome of the subsequent discussions held immediately after. It aims to provide a clear picture of this blooming field and proposes a few recommendations for the next round of experimental results.
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A machine learning technique is used to fit multiplicity distributions in high energy proton-proton collisions and applied to make predictions for collisions at higher energies. The method is tested ...with Monte Carlo event generators. Charged-particle multiplicity and transverse-momentum distributions within different pseudorapidity intervals in proton-proton collisions were simulated using the PYTHIA event generator for center of mass energies Formula: see text= 0.9, 2.36, 2.76, 5, 7, 8, 13 TeV for model training and validation and at 10, 20, 27, 50, 100 and 150 TeV for model predictions. Comparisons are made in order to ensure the model reproduces the relation between input variables and output distributions for the charged particle multiplicity and transverse-momentum. The multiplicity and transverse-momentum distributions are described and predicted very well, not only in the case of the trained but also in the case of untrained energy values. The study proposes a way to predict multiplicity distributions at a new energy by extrapolating the information inherent in the lower energy data. Using real data instead of Monte Carlo, as measured at the LHC, the technique has the potential to project the multiplicity distributions for different intervals at very high collision energies, e.g. 27 TeV or 100 TeV for the upgraded HE-LHC and FCC-hh respectively, using only data collected at the LHC, i.e. at center of mass energies from 0.9 up to 13 TeV.
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We use MasterCode to perform a frequentist analysis of the constraints on a phenomenological MSSM model with 11 parameters, the pMSSM11, including constraints from
∼
36
/fb of LHC data at 13 TeV and ...PICO, XENON1T and PandaX-II searches for dark matter scattering, as well as previous accelerator and astrophysical measurements, presenting fits both with and without the
(
g
-
2
)
μ
constraint. The pMSSM11 is specified by the following parameters: 3 gaugino masses
M
1
,
2
,
3
, a common mass for the first-and second-generation squarks
m
q
~
and a distinct third-generation squark mass
m
q
~
3
, a common mass for the first-and second-generation sleptons
m
ℓ
~
and a distinct third-generation slepton mass
m
τ
~
, a common trilinear mixing parameter
A
, the Higgs mixing parameter
μ
, the pseudoscalar Higgs mass
M
A
and
tan
β
. In the fit including
(
g
-
2
)
μ
, a Bino-like
χ
~
1
0
is preferred, whereas a Higgsino-like
χ
~
1
0
is mildly favoured when the
(
g
-
2
)
μ
constraint is dropped. We identify the mechanisms that operate in different regions of the pMSSM11 parameter space to bring the relic density of the lightest neutralino,
χ
~
1
0
, into the range indicated by cosmological data. In the fit including
(
g
-
2
)
μ
, coannihilations with
χ
~
2
0
and the Wino-like
χ
~
1
±
or with nearly-degenerate first- and second-generation sleptons are active, whereas coannihilations with the
χ
~
2
0
and the Higgsino-like
χ
~
1
±
or with first- and second-generation squarks may be important when the
(
g
-
2
)
μ
constraint is dropped. In the two cases, we present
χ
2
functions in two-dimensional mass planes as well as their one-dimensional profile projections and best-fit spectra. Prospects remain for discovering strongly-interacting sparticles at the LHC, in both the scenarios with and without the
(
g
-
2
)
μ
constraint, as well as for discovering electroweakly-interacting sparticles at a future linear
e
+
e
-
collider such as the ILC or CLIC.
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We study the prospects of searches for exotic long-lived particles with the MoEDAL detector at the LHC, assuming the integrated luminosity of 30 fb
-
1
that is expected at the end of Run 3. MoEDAL ...incorporates nuclear track detectors deployed a few metres away from the interaction point, which are sensitive to any highly-ionizing particles. Hence MoEDAL is able to detect singly- or doubly-charged particles with low velocities
β
<
0.15
or
<
0.3
, respectively, and lifetimes larger than
O
(
1
)
m
/
c
. We examine the MoEDAL sensitivity to various singly-charged supersymmetric particles with long lifetimes and to several types of doubly-charged long-lived particles with different spins and SU(2) charges. We compare the prospective MoEDAL mass reaches to current limits from ATLAS and CMS, which involve auxiliary analysis assumptions. MoEDAL searches for doubly-charged fermions are particularly competitive.
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Supersymmetric dark matter after LHC run 1 Bagnaschi, E. A.; Buchmueller, O.; Cavanaugh, R. ...
European physical journal. C, Particles and fields,
10/2015, Volume:
75, Issue:
10
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
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Different mechanisms operate in various regions of the MSSM parameter space to bring the relic density of the lightest neutralino,
χ
~
1
0
, assumed here to be the lightest SUSY particle (LSP) and ...thus the dark matter (DM) particle, into the range allowed by astrophysics and cosmology. These mechanisms include coannihilation with some nearly degenerate next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle such as the lighter stau
τ
~
1
, stop
t
~
1
or chargino
χ
~
1
±
, resonant annihilation via direct-channel heavy Higgs bosons
H
/
A
, the light Higgs boson
h
or the
Z
boson, and enhanced annihilation via a larger Higgsino component of the LSP in the focus-point region. These mechanisms typically select lower-dimensional subspaces in MSSM scenarios such as the CMSSM, NUHM1, NUHM2, and pMSSM10. We analyze how future LHC and direct DM searches can complement each other in the exploration of the different DM mechanisms within these scenarios. We find that the
τ
~
1
coannihilation regions of the CMSSM, NUHM1, NUHM2 can largely be explored at the LHC via searches for
/
E
T
events and long-lived charged particles, whereas their
H
/
A
funnel, focus-point and
χ
~
1
±
coannihilation regions can largely be explored by the LZ and Darwin DM direct detection experiments. We find that the dominant DM mechanism in our pMSSM10 analysis is
χ
~
1
±
coannihilation: parts of its parameter space can be explored by the LHC, and a larger portion by future direct DM searches.
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The Physics Beyond Colliders initiative is an exploratory study aimed at exploiting the full scientific potential of the CERN's accelerator complex and scientific infrastructures through projects ...complementary to the LHC and other possible future colliders. These projects will target fundamental physics questions in modern particle physics. This document presents the status of the proposals presented in the framework of the Beyond Standard Model physics working group, and explore their physics reach and the impact that CERN could have in the next 10-20 years on the international landscape.
We report the results of a global analysis of dark matter simplified models (DMSMs) with leptophobic mediator particles of spin one, considering the cases of both vector and axial-vector interactions ...with dark matter (DM) particles and quarks. We require the DMSMs to provide all the cosmological DM density indicated by Planck and other observations, and we impose the upper limits on spin-independent and -dependent scattering from direct DM search experiments. We also impose all relevant LHC constraints from searches for monojet events and measurements of the dijet mass spectrum. We model the likelihood functions for all the constraints and combine them within the MasterCode framework, and probe the full DMSM parameter spaces by scanning over the mediator and DM masses and couplings, not fixing any of the model parameters. We find, in general, two allowed regions of the parameter spaces: one in which the mediator couplings to Standard Model (SM) and DM particles may be comparable to those in the SM and the cosmological DM density is reached via resonant annihilation, and one in which the mediator couplings to quarks are
≲
10
-
3
and DM annihilation is non-resonant. We find that the DM and mediator masses may well lie within the ranges accessible to LHC experiments. We also present predictions for spin-independent and -dependent DM scattering, and present specific results for ranges of the DM couplings that may be favoured in ultraviolet completions of the DMSMs.
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The NUHM2 after LHC Run 1 Buchmueller, O.; Cavanaugh, R.; Citron, M. ...
European physical journal. C, Particles and fields,
2014/12, Volume:
74, Issue:
12
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
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We make a frequentist analysis of the parameter space of the NUHM2, in which the soft supersymmetry (SUSY)-breaking contributions to the masses of the two Higgs multiplets,
m
H
u
,
d
2
, vary ...independently from the universal soft SUSY-breaking contributions
m
0
2
to the masses of squarks and sleptons. Our analysis uses the MultiNest sampling algorithm with over
4
×
10
8
points to sample the NUHM2 parameter space. It includes the ATLAS and CMS Higgs mass measurements as well as the ATLAS search for supersymmetric jets +
/
E
T
signals using the full LHC Run 1 data, the measurements of
BR
(
B
s
→
μ
+
μ
-
)
by LHCb and CMS together with other B-physics observables, electroweak precision observables and the XENON100 and LUX searches for spin-independent dark-matter scattering. We find that the preferred regions of the NUHM2 parameter space have negative SUSY-breaking scalar masses squared at the GUT scale for squarks and sleptons,
m
0
2
<
0
, as well as
m
H
u
2
<
m
H
d
2
<
0
. The tension present in the CMSSM and NUHM1 between the supersymmetric interpretation of
(
g
-
2
)
μ
and the absence to date of SUSY at the LHC is not significantly alleviated in the NUHM2. We find that the minimum
χ
2
=
32.5
with 21 degrees of freedom (dof) in the NUHM2, to be compared with
χ
2
/
dof
=
35.0
/
23
in the CMSSM, and
χ
2
/
dof
=
32.7
/
22
in the NUHM1. We find that the one-dimensional likelihood functions for sparticle masses and other observables are similar to those found previously in the CMSSM and NUHM1.
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The pMSSM10 after LHC run 1 de Vries, K. J.; Bagnaschi, E. A.; Buchmueller, O. ...
European physical journal. C, Particles and fields,
09/2015, Volume:
75, Issue:
9
Journal Article
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We present a frequentist analysis of the parameter space of the pMSSM10, in which the following ten soft SUSY-breaking parameters are specified independently at the mean scalar top mass scale
M
SUSY
...≡
m
t
~
1
m
t
~
2
: the gaugino masses
M
1
,
2
,
3
, the first-and second-generation squark masses
m
q
~
1
=
m
q
~
2
, the third-generation squark mass
m
q
~
3
, a common slepton mass
m
ℓ
~
and a common trilinear mixing parameter
A
, as well as the Higgs mixing parameter
μ
, the pseudoscalar Higgs mass
M
A
and
tan
β
, the ratio of the two Higgs vacuum expectation values. We use the MultiNest sampling algorithm with
∼
1.2
×
10
9
points to sample the pMSSM10 parameter space. A dedicated study shows that the sensitivities to strongly interacting sparticle masses of ATLAS and CMS searches for jets, leptons
+
signals depend only weakly on many of the other pMSSM10 parameters. With the aid of the Atom and Scorpion codes, we also implement the LHC searches for electroweakly interacting sparticles and light stops, so as to confront the pMSSM10 parameter space with all relevant SUSY searches. In addition, our analysis includes Higgs mass and rate measurements using the HiggsSignals code, SUSY Higgs exclusion bounds, the measurements of
BR
(
B
s
→
μ
+
μ
-
)
by LHCb and CMS, other
B
-physics observables, electroweak precision observables, the cold dark matter density and the XENON100 and LUX searches for spin-independent dark matter scattering, assuming that the cold dark matter is mainly provided by the lightest neutralino
χ
~
1
0
. We show that the pMSSM10 is able to provide a supersymmetric interpretation of
(
g
-
2
)
μ
, unlike the CMSSM, NUHM1 and NUHM2. As a result, we find (omitting Higgs rates) that the minimum
χ
2
=
20.5
with 18 degrees of freedom (d.o.f.) in the pMSSM10, corresponding to a
χ
2
probability of 30.8 %, to be compared with
χ
2
/
d
.
o
.
f
.
=
32.8
/
24
(
31.1
/
23
)
(
30.3
/
22
)
in the CMSSM (NUHM1) (NUHM2). We display the one-dimensional likelihood functions for sparticle masses, and we show that they may be significantly lighter in the pMSSM10 than in the other models, e.g., the gluino may be as light as
∼
1250
GeV
at the 68 % CL, and squarks, stops, electroweak gauginos and sleptons may be much lighter than in the CMSSM, NUHM1 and NUHM2. We discuss the discovery potential of future LHC runs,
e
+
e
-
colliders and direct detection experiments.
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