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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 88, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.88.075003
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- U.S. National Science Foundation [PHY-0757868, PHY-0844667]
- NSF [1066293]
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In a recent paper [M. Perelstein and B. Shakya, J. High Energy Phys. 10 (2011) 142.], we discuss the correlation between the elastic neutralino-nucleon scattering cross section constrained by dark matter direct-detection experiments and fine-tuning at tree level in the electroweak symmetry breaking sector of the minimal supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). Here, we show that the correlation persists in the next-to-minimal supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM), and its variant, the lambda-supersymmetry (SUSY) model. Both models are strongly motivated by the recent discovery of a 125 GeV Higgs-like particle. We also discuss the implications of the recently published bound on the direct-detection cross section from 225 live days of the XENON100 experiment. In both the MSSM and the NMSSM, most of the parameter space with fine-tuning less than 10% is inconsistent with the XENON100 bound. In the lambda-SUSY model, on the other hand, large regions of completely natural electroweak symmetry breaking are still allowed, primarily due to a parametric suppression of fine-tuning with large lambda. The upcoming XENON1T experiment will be able to probe most of the parameter space with less than 1% fine-tuning in all three models.
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