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Using two-loop renormalization group equations implementing the decoupling of heavy scalars, Effective SUSY scenarios are studied in the limit in which there is a single low energy Higgs field. Gauge coupling unification is shown to hold with similar or better precision than in standard MSSM scenarios. b-τ unification is examined, and Higgs masses are computed using the effective potential, including two-loop contributions from scalars. A 125 GeV Higgs is compatible with stops/sbottoms at around 300 GeV with non-universal boundary conditions at the scale of the heavy sparticles if some of the trilinear couplings at this scale take values of the order of 1-2 TeV; if more constrained boundary conditions inspired by msugra or gauge mediation are set at a higher scale, heavier colored sparticles are required in general. Finally, since the decoupled RG flow for third-generation scalar masses departs very significantly from the MSSM \( \overline {\text{DR}} \) one, tachyon bounds for light scalars are revisited and shown to be relaxed by up to a TeV or more.
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Tamarit, C. Decoupling heavy sparticles in Effective SUSY scenarios: unification, Higgs masses and tachyon bounds. J. High Energ. Phys. 2012, 80 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2012)080
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