An update of the constraints on the phenomenological MSSM from the new LHC Higgs results

Updated results on the search of Higgs bosons at the LHC with up to 17 fb(-1) of data have just been presented by the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations. New constraints are provided by the LHCb and XENON experiments with the observation of the rare decay B-s ->mu(+)mu(-) and new limits on dark matter direct detection. In this Letter, we update and extend the results on the implications of these data on the phenomenological Minimal Supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model (pMSSM) by using high statistics, flat scans of its 19 parameters. The new LHC data on b (b) over bar and tau tau decays of the lightest Higgs state and the new CMS limits from the tau tau searches for the heavier Higgs states set stronger constraints on the pMSSM parameter space. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.