9–11 May 2016
University of Pittsburgh
US/Eastern timezone

Dark Matter and the Higgs in Natural SUSY

9 May 2016, 18:00
15m
G30 (Benedum Hall)

G30

Benedum Hall

parallel talk SUSY II

Speaker

Sebastian Macaluso (Rutgers University)

Description

We study a supersymmetric extension of the MSSM that gives both a dark matter (DM) candidate and contributes to account for the 125 GeV Higgs mass. We show how to achieve excellent $\sim$ 10 % fine-tuning and a thermal relic WIMP DM consistent with all existing constraints, by just adding a pair of SU(2) doublets and a singlet to the MSSM. The main annihilation channels in our model are to $t\bar t$ and Higgsinos (the Higgsinos should be light in natural SUSY). We will see how the relic abundance and spin-dependent (SD) direct detection (DD) cross section are related. Therefore imposing the relic density constraint implies a particular value for the SD DD cross section. Fortunately, this value is not ruled out yet, but the next generation of DM experiments should completely rule out or discover this model.

Authors

Aria Basirnia (Rutgers University) David Shih (Rutgers University) Sebastian Macaluso (Rutgers University)

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