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The light stop scenario from gauge mediation

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In this paper we embed the light stop scenario, a MSSM framework which explains the baryon asymmetry of the universe through a strong first order electroweak phase transition, in a top-down approach. The required low energy spectrum consists in the light SM-like Higgs, the right-handed stop, the gauginos and the Higgsinos while the remaining scalars are heavy. This spectrum is naturally driven by renormalization group evolution starting from a heavy scalar spectrum at high energies. The latter is obtained through a supersymmetry-breaking mix of gauge mediation, which provides the scalars masses by new gauge interactions, and gravity mediation, which generates gaugino and Higgsino masses. This supersymmetry breaking can also explain the μ and B μ parameters necessary for electroweak breaking and predicts small tri-linear mixing terms A t in agreement with electroweak baryogenesis requirements. The minimal ultraviolet embedding predicts a Higgs mass around its experimental lower bound and by a small extension higher masses m H ≲ 127 GeV can be accommodated.

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    Antonio Delgado & Mariano Quirós

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Delgado, A., Nardini, G. & Quirós, M. The light stop scenario from gauge mediation. J. High Energ. Phys. 2012, 137 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2012)137

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