Can supersymmetry breaking lead to electroweak symmetry breaking via formation of scalar bound states?

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2012.11.024zbMATH Open1332.81092arXiv1210.6433OpenAlexW2066999400MaRDI QIDQ261078FDOQ261078

Authors: John M. Cornwall, Lauren Pearce, R. D. Peccei, Alexander Kusenko 

Publication date: 22 March 2016

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

Abstract: The recent discovery of the putative 125-GeV Higgs boson has motivated a number of attempts to reconcile its relatively large mass with the predictions of the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM). Some approaches invoked large trilinear supersymmetry-breaking terms A_t between stops and one of the elementary Higgs fields. We consider the possibility that electroweak symmetry breaking may be triggered by supersymmetry breaking with a large A_t, large enough to generate a composite field with the same quantum numbers as the Higgs boson and with a non-vanishing vacuum expectation value. In the resulting vacuum, the usual relation between the gauge couplings and the Higgs self-coupling does not apply, and there is no reason to expect the same upper bound on the mass of the lightest Higgs boson. In a simple model where the bound state is assumed to have no mixing with the other fields, we calculate the critical coupling A_t necessary for symmetry breaking using the lowest-order Bethe-Salpeter (BS) equation. Study of the BS equation is complicated by the structure of its lowest-order kernel, which is a crossed box graph, but we find an accurate approximation to its solution. In a realistic model, the mixing of the bound state with the fundamental Higgs boson creates a symmetry-breaking seesaw. We outline the steps toward a realistic model.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.6433

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetry and quantum mechanics (81Q60) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15) Bethe-Salpeter and other integral equations arising in quantum theory (81Q40)

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