Light Sparticles from a Light Singlet in Gauge Mediation

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We revisit a simple model that combines minimal gauge mediation and the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model.

• We show that one can obtain a 125 GeV Standard Model-like Higgs boson with stops as light as 1.1 TeV, thanks to the mixing of the Higgs with a singlet state at O(90-100) GeV.
• Sparticle searches at the LHC may come with additional b-jets or taus and may involve displaced vertices.
• The sparticle production cross-section at the 13 TeV LHC can be O(10-100) fb, leading to great prospects for discovery in the early phase of LHC Run II.