Physics Letters B 772 (2017) 409–414
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Muon g − 2in MSSM gauge mediation revisited
Tsutomu T. Yanagida
a,1
, Norimi Yokozaki
b,∗
a
Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), University of Tokyo, Kashiwa 277-8583, Japan
b
Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8578, Japan
a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t
Article history:
Received
10 April 2017
Received
in revised form 23 June 2017
Accepted
1 July 2017
Available
online 8 July 2017
Editor:
J. Hisano
The Higgs boson of 125 GeV requires large stop masses, leading to the large μ-parameter in most
cases of gauge mediation. On the other hand, the explanation for the muon g − 2anomaly needs
small slepton and neutralino/chargino masses. Such disparity in masses may be obtained from a mass
splitting of colored and non-colored messenger fields. However, even if the required small slepton and
neutralino/chargino masses are realized, all parameter regions consistent with the muon g − 2are
excluded by the recent updated ATLAS result on the wino search in the case that the messenger fields
are in 5 +
¯
5 representations of SU(5). It is also revealed that the messenger fields in 10 + 10 or 24
representation
can not explain the muon g − 2anomaly. We show, giving a simple example model, that
the above confliction is solved if there is an additional contribution to the Higgs soft mass which makes
the μ-parameter small. We also show that the required Higgs B-term for the electroweak symmetry
breaking is consistently generated by radiative corrections from gaugino loops.
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1. Introduction
The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon (muon g − 2)
was precisely measured by the Brookhaven E821 experiment [1,2].
The measured value deviates from the standard model (SM) pre-
diction
as [3]
(a
μ
)
exp
− (a
μ
)
SM
= (26.1 ± 8.0) × 10
−10
, (1)
which is at more than 3σ level. Also, Davier et al. has reported
a deviation of 3.6σ level [4,5]. This anomaly might be a signal of
the physics beyond the SM. One of the attractive explanations for
the muon g − 2 anomaly is given by supersymmetry (SUSY). In
the minimal SUSY extension of the SM (MSSM), the anomaly of
the muon g − 2is explained with light sleptons, neutralino and/or
chargino of O(100) GeV [6–8].
Such
a low-scale SUSY is, in general, very severely constrained
by flavor changing neutral-current processes because of the light-
ness
of the sleptons. This fact motivates us to consider SUSY break-
ing
mediation models where soft SUSY breaking masses arise in a
flavor independent way. In gauge mediated SUSY breaking (GMSB)
scenarios [9–11] (for early attempts [12–16]), the SUSY breaking of
the hidden sector is mediated to the visible sector via gauge in-
teractions,
and the generated soft masses are flavor independent;
*
Corresponding author.
E-mail
address: yokozaki@truth.phys.tohoku.ac.jp (N. Yokozaki).
1
Hamamatsu Professor.
therefore, GMSB models are attractive candidates for the low-scale
SUSY.
In most GMSB models, the Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV re-
quires
heavy stops of masses ∼10 TeV [17–21], due to the small-
ness
of trilinear couplings of the stops. With the heavy stops,
the higgsino mass parameter, μ, should be taken as large as sev-
eral
TeV for generating the correct electroweak symmetry breaking
(EWSB). In these cases, the chargino contribution to the muon
g −2is suppressed and the explanation of the muon g − 2 anomaly
requires the quite light sleptons, bino and wino.
2
The mass split-
ting
of the colored (squarks and a gluino) and non-colored SUSY
particles (sleptons, neutralinos and charginos) may be realized
from a mass splitting of colored and non-colored messenger fields
[22–25]. However, the lightest neturalino/chargino is almost purely
wino-like for the large μ-parameter, and its mass is predicted be-
low
400 GeV. This wino has been excluded by the recent updated
ATLAS result on the wino search [26]: the wino should be heavier
than 430 GeV. This confliction can be avoided in the case of an ad-
joint
messenger transforming as 24 in SU(5) gauge group. We will
show that this case is, however, also excluded since the stau is too
light and long-lived (see [27,28] for the LHC bounds). So far, in the
cases that the messenger fields are in 5 +
¯
5, 10 + 10 or 24 repre-
sentation
of SU(5), the muon g − 2 anomaly can not be explained
without an extension.
2
The heavier wino makes the slepton masses larger via radiative corrections.
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