2011

Kinetically-Enhanced Anomaly Mediation

Kumar, Abhishek, Morrissey, David E., Spray, Andrew

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We investigate a modification of anomaly-mediated supersymmetry breaking (AMSB) with an exotic U(1)_x gauge sector that can solve the tachyonic slepton problem of minimal AMSB scenarios.

  • The new U(1)_x multiplet is assumed to couple directly to the source of supersymmetry breaking, but only indirectly to the minimal supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) through kinetic mixing with hypercharge.
  • If the MSSM sector is also sequestered from the source of supersymmetry breaking, the contributions to the MSSM soft terms come from both AMSB and the U(1)_x kinetic coupling.
  • We find that this arrangement can give rise to a flavour-universal, phenomenologically viable, and distinctive spectrum of MSSM superpartners.

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