What hadron collider is required to discover or falsify natural supersymmetry?

Authors

Howard Baer, University of OklahomaFollow
Vernon Barger, University of WisconsinFollow
James S. Gainer, University of HawaiiFollow
Peisi Huang, Texas A&M UniversityFollow
Michael Savoy, University of OklahomaFollow
Hasan Serce, University of OklahomaFollow
Xerxes Tata, University of HawaiiFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

2017

Citation

Physics Letters B 774 (2017) 451–455

Comments

© 2017 The Authors.

Open access

Abstract

Weak scale supersymmetry (SUSY) remains a compelling extension of the Standard Model because it stabilizes the quantum corrections to the Higgs and W, Z boson masses. In natural SUSY models these corrections are, by definition, never much larger than the corresponding masses. Natural SUSY models all have an upper limit on the gluino mass, too high to lead to observable signals even at the high luminosity LHC. However, in models with gaugino mass unification, the wino is sufficiently light that supersymmetry discovery is possible in other channels over the entire natural SUSY parameter space with no worse than 3% fine-tuning. Here, we examine the SUSY reach in more general models with and without gaugino mass unification (specifically, natural generalized mirage mediation), and show that the high energy LHC (HE-LHC), a pp collider with [?] = 33 TeV, will be able to detect the SUSY signal over the entire allowed mass range. Thus, HE-LHC would either discover or conclusively falsify natural SUSY with better than 3% fine-tuning using a conservative measure that allows for correlations among the model parameters.