The fine-tuning cost of the likelihood in SUSY models

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2012.11.007zbMATH Open1262.81234arXiv1208.0837OpenAlexW2019976909MaRDI QIDQ1950482FDOQ1950482

Authors: Yanyan Li 

Publication date: 13 May 2013

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In SUSY models, the fine tuning of the electroweak (EW) scale with respect to their parameters gamma_i={m_0, m_{1/2}, mu_0, A_0, B_0,...} and the maximal likelihood L to fit the experimental data are usually regarded as two different problems. We show that, if one regards the EW minimum conditions as constraints that fix the EW scale, this commonly held view is not correct and that the likelihood contains all the information about fine-tuning. In this case we show that the corrected likelihood is equal to the ratio L/Delta of the usual likelihood L and the traditional fine tuning measure Delta of the EW scale. A similar result is obtained for the integrated likelihood over the set {gamma_i}, that can be written as a surface integral of the ratio L/Delta, with the surface in gamma_i space determined by the EW minimum constraints. As a result, a large likelihood actually demands a large ratio L/Delta or equivalently, a small chi^2_{new}=chi^2_{old}+2*ln(Delta). This shows the fine-tuning cost to the likelihood (chi^2_{new}) of the EW scale stability enforced by SUSY, that is ignored in data fits. A good chi^2_{new}/d.o.f.approx 1 thus demands SUSY models have a fine tuning amount Delta<<exp(d.o.f./2), which provides a model-independent criterion for acceptable fine-tuning. If this criterion is not met, one can thus rule out SUSY models without a further chi^2/d.o.f. analysis. Numerical methods to fit the data can easily be adapted to account for this effect.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.0837

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zbMATH Keywords

likelihood functionfine-tuning to the electroweak scalesupersymmetric models in 4D

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15) Unified quantum theories (81V22)

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