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We compare the collider phenomenology of mirage mediation and deflected mirage mediation, which are two recently proposed “mixed” supersymmetry breaking scenarios motivated from string compactifications. The scenarios differ in that deflected mirage mediation includes contributions from gauge mediation in addition to the contributions from gravity mediation and anomaly mediation also present in mirage mediation. The threshold effects from gauge mediation can drastically alter the low energy spectrum from that of pure mirage mediation models, resulting in some cases in a squeezed gaugino spectrum and a gluino that is much lighter than other colored superpartners. We provide several benchmark deflected mirage mediation models and construct model lines as a function of the gauge mediation contributions, and discuss their discovery potential at the LHC.
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Altunkaynak, B., Nelson, B.D., Everett, L.L. et al. Phenomenological implications of deflected mirage mediation: comparison with mirage mediation. J. High Energ. Phys. 2010, 54 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2010)054
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