Speaker
David Sanford
(UCI)
Abstract:
Recent results from Higgs boson and supersymmetry
searches at the Large Hadron Collider provide strong new motivations
for supersymmetric theories with heavy superpartners. Focus point
supersymmetry (FP SUSY) scenarios allows for large superpartner masses
to be achieved naturally. However, even in FP scenarios superpartner
masses large enough to produce a Higgs boson consistent with recent
data leads to an undesireable degree of fine-tuning. We extend
previous discussions of FP SUSY by allowing for non-zero $A$-terms,
and examine the effect on Higgs mass and fine-tuning in
gravity-mediated scenarios.
Author
David Sanford
(UCI)
Co-author
Prof.
Jonathan Feng
(UC Irvine)
