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LHC benchmarks from flavored gauge mediation

Journal of High Energy Physics volume 2016, Article number: 58 (2016) Cite this article

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We present benchmark points for LHC searches from flavored gauge mediation models, in which messenger-matter couplings give flavor-dependent squark masses. Our examples include spectra in which a single squark — stop, scharm, or sup — is much lighter than all other colored superpartners, motivating improved quark flavor tagging at the LHC. Many examples feature flavor mixing; in particular, large stop-scharm mixing is possible. The correct Higgs mass is obtained in some examples by virtue of the large stop A-term. We also revisit the general flavor and CP structure of the models. Even though the A-terms can be substantial, their contributions to EDM’s are very suppressed, because of the particular dependence of the A-terms on the messenger coupling. This holds regardless of the messenger-coupling texture. More generally, the special structure of the soft terms often leads to stronger suppression of flavor- and CP-violating processes, compared to naive estimates.

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Ierushalmi, N., Iwamoto, S., Lee, G. et al. LHC benchmarks from flavored gauge mediation. J. High Energ. Phys. 2016, 58 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2016)058

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