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7–9 May 2012
University of Pittsburgh
US/Eastern timezone

A Naturally Attractive Supermodel

8 May 2012, 14:00
15m
107 (Lawrence)

107

Lawrence

parallel talk SUSY V

Speaker

Dr Timothy Cohen (SLAC)

Abstract:

We propose an attractor mechanism which generates the 'more minimal' supersymmetric standard model from a broad class of supersymmetry breaking boundary conditions. The hierarchies in the fermion masses and mixings are produced by the same dynamics and a natural weak scale results from gaugino mediation. These features arise from augmenting the standard model with a new SU(3) gauge group under which only the third generation quarks are charged. The theory flows to a strongly interacting fixed point which induces a negative anomalous dimension for the third generation quarks and a positive anomalous dimension for the Higgs. As a result, a split-family natural spectrum and the flavor hierarchies are dynamically generated.

Author

Dr Timothy Cohen (SLAC)

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