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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 85, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.075012
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- Science Technology and Facilities Council
- Foundation for Polish Science
- Polish National Science Centre [N N202 167440]
- STFC consortium of Lancaster University
- STFC consortium of Manchester University
- STFC consortium of Sheffield University
- EC [MRTN-CT-2006-035505]
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The CMS Collaboration has released the results of its search for supersymmetry, by applying an alpha(T) method to 1.1/fb of data at 7 TeV. The null result excludes (at 95% C. L.) a low-mass region of the Constrained MSSM's parameter space that was previously favored by other experiments. Additionally, the negative result of the XENON100 dark matter search has excluded (at 90% C. L.) values of the spin-independent scattering cross sections sigma(SI)(p) as low as 10(-8) pb. We incorporate these improved experimental constraints into a global Bayesian fit of the Constrained MSSM by constructing approximate likelihood functions. In the case of the alpha(T) limit, we simulate detector efficiency for the CMS alpha(T) 1.1/fb analysis and validate our method against the official 95% C. L. contour. We identify the 68% and 95% credible posterior regions of the CMSSM parameters, and also find the best-fit point. We find that the credible regions change considerably once a likelihood from alpha(T) is included, in particular, the narrow light Higgs resonance region becomes excluded, but the focus point/horizontal branch region remains allowed at the 1 sigma level. Adding the limit from XENON100 has a weaker additional effect, in part due to large uncertainties in evaluating sigma(SI)(p), which we include in a conservative way, although we find that it reduces the posterior probability of the focus point region to the 2 sigma level. The new regions of high posterior favor squarks lighter than the gluino and all but one Higgs bosons heavy. The dark matter neutralino mass is found in the range 250 GeV less than or similar to m(x) less than or similar to 343 GeV (at 1 sigma) while, as the result of improved limits from the LHC, the favored range of sigma(SI)(p) is pushed down to values below 10(-9) pb. We highlight tension between delta(g - 2)(mu)(SUSY) and BR((B) over bar -> X-s gamma), which is exacerbated by including the alpha(T) limit; each constraint favors a different region of the CMSSM's mass parameters.
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