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Excluding electroweak baryogenesis in the MSSM

Journal

JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 8, Pages -

Publisher

SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2012)005

Keywords

Supersymmetry Phenomenology

Funding

  1. National Science Foundation [PHY-0969739]
  2. U.S. National Science Foundation [NSF-PHY-0969510]
  3. LHC Theory Initiative
  4. NSF CAREER Award [NSF-PHY-1056833]
  5. Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
  6. Division Of Physics [969739] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
  7. Division Of Physics
  8. Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [969510] Funding Source: National Science Foundation

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In the context of the MSSM the Light Stop Scenario (LSS) is the only region of parameter space that allows for successful Electroweak Baryogenesis (EWBG). This possibility is very phenomenologically attractive, since it allows for the direct production of light stops and could be tested at the LHC. The ATLAS and CMS experiments have recently supplied tantalizing hints for a Higgs boson with a mass of approximate to 125 GeV. This Higgs mass severely restricts the parameter space of the LSS, and we discuss the specific predictions made for EWBG in the MSSM. Combining data from all the available ATLAS and CMS Higgs searches reveals a tension with the predictions of EWBG even at this early stage. This allows us to exclude EWBG in the MSSM at greater than (90) 98% confidence level in the (non-)decoupling limit, by examining correlations between different Higgs decay channels. We also examine the exclusion without the assumption of a approximate to 125 GeV Higgs. The Higgs searches are still highly constraining, excluding the entire EWBG parameter space at greater than 90% CL except for a small window of m h approximate to 117-119 GeV.

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