
Physics Letters B 771 (2017) 264–270
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General No-Scale Supergravity: An F -SU(5) tale
Dingli Hu
a,∗
, Tianjun Li
b,c
, Adam Lux
d
, James A. Maxin
d,e
, Dimitri V. Nanopoulos
a,f,g
a
George P. and Cynthia W. Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
b
Key Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
c
School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China
d
Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK 74104, USA
e
Department of Chemistry and Physics, Louisiana State University, Shreveport, LA 71115, USA
f
Astroparticle Physics Group, Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC), Mitchell Campus, Woodlands, TX 77381, USA
g
Academy of Athens, Division of Natural Sciences, 28 Panepistimiou Avenue, Athens 10679, Greece
a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t
Article history:
Received
11 March 2017
Received
in revised form 16 May 2017
Accepted
17 May 2017
Available
online 24 May 2017
Editor: M.
Cveti
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c
We study the grand unification model flipped SU(5) with additional vector-like particle multiplets,
or F -SU(5) for short, in the framework of General No-Scale Supergravity. In our analysis we allow
the supersymmetry (SUSY) breaking soft terms to be generically non-zero, thereby extending the
phenomenologically viable parameter space beyond the highly constrained one-parameter version of
F -SU(5). In this initial inquiry, the mSUGRA/CMSSM SUSY breaking terms are implemented. We find
this easing away from the vanishing SUSY breaking terms enables a more broad mass range of vector-
like
particles, dubbed flippons, including flippons less than 1 TeV that could presently be observed
at the LHC2, as well as a lighter gluino mass and SUSY spectrum overall. This presents heightened
odds that the General No-Scale F -SU(5) viable parameter space can be probed at the LHC2. The
phenomenology comprises both bino and higgsino dark matter, including a Higgs funnel region. Particle
states emerging from the SUSY cascade decays are presented to experimentally distinguish amongst the
diverse phenomenological regions.
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1. Introduction
The second phase of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) com-
menced
in 2015, seeking to append a discovery of supersymmetry
(SUSY) to the 2012 observation of the light CP-even Higgs boson.
The ATLAS experiment recorded 36.0fb
−1
of data in 2016 at a
13 TeV center-of-mass energy, while the CMS experiment recorded
37.82 fb
−1
. Given this rapid accumulation of luminosity in 2016
and soon to reenergize in 2017, the supersymmetric model space
is expected to be probed beyond a 2 TeV gluino (
g) mass. The most
recently published data statistics from the 2015 LHC1 run collision
data of 3.9fb
−1
recorded by ATLAS and 3.81 fb
−1
recorded by
CMS provide a lower search bound of about 1.9 TeV on the gluino
mass [1], serving as a rather strong constraint on the SUSY model
space.
The
beauty of supersymmetry lies in its capacity to naturally
resolve several fundamental dilemmas, such as stabilization of the
electroweak scale (EW), a lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP)
that is stable under R-parity serving as a natural dark matter
*
Corresponding author.
E-mail
address: hudingli@tamu.edu (D. Hu).
candidate, a radiative EW scale symmetry breaking mechanism,
and gauge coupling unification. SUSY thus represents a promis-
ing
candidate for new physics beyond the Standard Model. The
SUSY search at the LHC though has returned null results thus far,
with no conclusive signals yet observed. Consequently, given an
experimentally measured Higgs boson mass of m
h
= 125.1GeV
[2,3],
a rather heavy light stop (
t
1
) mass, and hence SUSY spec-
trum
overall, is necessary in minimalistic models such as minimal
Supergravity (mSUGRA) and the Constrained Minimal Supersym-
metric
Standard Model (CMSSM) in order to generate the required
1-loop and 2-loop contributions to the Higgs boson mass due to
the large top Yukawa coupling. Accordingly, the experimentally vi-
able
SUSY spectra of mSUGRA/CMSSM, which are quite heavy, may
be beyond the reach of the LHC2.
The
GUT model flipped SU(5) with additional vector-like multi-
plets,
or F -SU(5) for short, has been thoroughly examined in the
framework of No-Scale Supergravity (SUGRA) [4–8]. In these prior
analyses, the strict No-Scale SUGRA boundary conditions M
1/2
and
M
0
= A
0
= B
μ
= 0were applied. Given these rigorous constraints
at the unification scale, the vector-like particle (flippon) mass scale
M
V
, top quark mass m
t
, and low energy ratio of Higgs vacuum ex-
pectation
values (VEVs) tanβ can be expressed as a function of the
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