Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2001-09-28
Phys.Lett.B525:308-314,2002
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
11 pages, latex, 6 eps figures
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0370-2693(01)01433-2
Working in the context of the CMSSM, we argue that phenomenological constraints now require the universal soft supersymmetry-breaking scalar mass m_0 be non-zero at the input GUT scale. This conclusion is primarily imposed by the LEP lower limit on the Higgs mass and the requirement that the lightest supersymmetric particle not be charged. We find that m_0 > 0 for all tan beta if mu < 0, and m_0 = 0 may be allowed for mu > 0 only when tan beta sim 8 and one allows an uncertainty of 3+ GeV in the theoretical calculation of the Higgs mass. Upper limits on flavour-changing neutral interactions in the MSSM squark sector allow substantial violations of non-universality in the m_0 values, even if their magnitudes are comparable to the lower limit we find in the CMSSM. Also, we show that our lower limit on m_0 at the GUT scale in the CMSSM is compatible with the no-scale boundary condition m_0 = 0 at the Planck scale.
Ellis John
Nanopoulos Dimitri V.
Olive Keith A.
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