2010

What if Supersymmetry Breaking Unifies beyond the GUT Scale?

Ellis, John, Mustafayev, Azar, Olive, Keith A.

Understand

We study models in which soft supersymmetry-breaking parameters of the MSSM become universal at some unification scale, $M_{in}$, above the GUT scale, $\mgut$.

  • We assume that the scalar masses and gaugino masses have common values, $m_0$ and $m_{1/2}$ respectively, at $M_{in}$.
  • We use the renormalization-group equations of the minimal supersymmetric SU(5) GUT to evaluate their evolutions down to $\mgut$, studying their dependences on the unknown parameters of the SU(5) superpotential.
  • After displaying some generic examples of the evolutions of the soft supersymmetry-breaking parameters, we discuss the effects on physical sparticle masses in some specific examples.

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