Prospects for SUSY at the LHC in light of dark matter

by Baer, H. A. (Florida State University)

Friday 23 Jun 2006, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

TH Auditorium (CERN)

The WMAP measurement of the cold dark matter abundance in the Universe serves as a useful guide to what supersymmetry might look like at the CERN LHC. I review WMAP allowed regions in gravity-mediated SUSY breaking models with and without soft term universality. We consider non-universality in generations (motivated by reconciling b -> s γ with (g-2) _μ), and in the Higgs sector (as motivated by SUSY GUTs). Each case leads to new collider possibilities for SUSY. In the gaugino sector, WMAP points to the possibility of mixed wino dark matter (MWDM), bino-wino co-annihilation (BWCA) dark matter, and mixed higgsino dark matter (MHDM). Many of these possibilities are realized in the soft terms generated from mixed modulus-anomaly mediated SUSY breaking, as occurs in the KKLT construction.