Sparticle Masses in Higgsed Gauge Mediation

Understand

We generalize the gauge sector of gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking to allow for an arbitrary gauge group with an arbitrary supersymmetric Higgsing.

• The sparticle masses are computed to leading order in the gauge coupling.
• The generic effect on the MSSM spectrum from additional Higgsed gauge structure is to increase the sfermion masses relative to the gaugino masses.