Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1999-09-14
Phys.Rev. D62 (2000) 015008
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
23 pages, LaTeX, 4 figures, uses axodraw.sty; v2: some clarifying remarks added, sec 3.2 expanded, appendix with example model
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.62.015008
A striking consequence of supersymmetry breaking communicated purely via the superconformal anomaly is that the gaugino masses are proportional to the gauge beta functions. This result, however, is not unique to anomaly mediation. We present examples of ``generalized'' gauge-mediated models with messengers in standard model representations that give nearly identical predictions for the gaugino masses, but positive (mass)^2 for all sleptons. There are remarkable similarities between an anomaly-mediated model with a small additional universal mass added to all scalars and the gauge-mediated models with a long-lived Wino next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle (NLSP), leading to only a small set of observables that provide robust distinguishing criteria. These include ratios of the heaviest to lightest selectrons, smuons, and stops. The sign of the gluino soft mass an unambiguous distinction, but requires measuring a difficult class of one-loop radiative corrections to sparticle interactions. A high precision measurement of the Higgs-b-\bar{b} coupling is probably the most promising interaction from which this sign might be extracted.
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