Focus Point Gauge Mediation with Incomplete Adjoint Messengers and Gauge Coupling Unification

Understand

As the mass limits on supersymmetric particles are gradually pushed to higher values due to their continuing non-observation at the CERN LHC, looking for focus point regions in the supersymmetric parameter space, which shows considerably reduced fine-tuning, is increasingly more important than ever.

• We explore this in the context of gauge mediated supersymmetry breaking with messengers transforming in the adjoint representation of the gauge group, namely, octet of color SU(3) and triplet of weak SU(2).
• A distinctive feature of this scenario is that the focus point is achieved by fixing a single combination of parameters in the messenger sector, which is invariant under the renormalization group evolution.
• Because of this invariance, the focus point behavior is well under control once the relevant parameters are fixed by a more fundamental theory.