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Eur. Phys. J. C (2014) 74:2809
DOI 10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-2809-3
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Implications of improved Higgs mass calculations
for supersymmetric models
O. Buchmueller
1
,M.J.Dolan
2
, J. Ellis
3,4
, T. Hahn
5
, S. Heinemeyer
6,a
, W. Hollik
5
, J. Marrouche
1
,K.A.Olive
7
,
H. Rzehak
8
,K.J.deVries
1
, G. Weiglein
9
1
High Energy Physics Group, Blackett Lab., Imperial College, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2AZ, UK
2
Theory Group, SLAC National Accelerator Lab., 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025-7090, USA
3
Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology Group, Department of Physics, King’s College London, London WC2R 2LS, UK
4
Theory Division, CERN, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
5
Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Föhringer Ring 6, 80805 Munich, Germany
6
Instituto de Física de Cantabria (CSIC-UC), 39005 Santander, Spain
7
William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
8
Physikalisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
9
DESY, Notkestrasse 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
Received: 9 January 2014 / Accepted: 4 March 2014 / Published online: 18 March 2014
© The Author(s) 2014. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com
Abstract We discuss the allowed parameter spaces of
supersymmetric scenarios in light of improved Higgs mass
predictions provided by FeynHiggs 2.10.0. The Higgs
mass predictions combine Feynman-diagrammatic results
with a resummation of leading and subleading logarithmic
corrections from the stop/top sector, which yield a signifi-
cant improvement in the region of large stop masses. Scans
in the pMSSM parameter space show that, for given val-
ues of the soft supersymmetry-breaking parameters, the new
logarithmic contributions beyond the two-loop order imple-
mented in FeynHiggs tend to give larger values of the
light CP-even Higgs mass, M
h
, in the region of large stop
masses than previous predictions that were based on a fixed-
order Feynman-diagrammatic result, though the differences
are generally consistent with the previous estimates of the-
oretical uncertainties. We re-analyse the parameter spaces
of the CMSSM, NUHM1 and NUHM2, taking into account
also the constraints from CMS and LHCb measurements of
BR(B
s
→ μ
+
μ
−
)and ATLAS searches for /E
T
events using
20/fb of LHC data at 8 TeV. Within the CMSSM, the Higgs
mass constraint disfavours tan β 10, though not in the
NUHM1 or NUHM2.
1 Introduction
The ATLAS and CMS experiments did not discover s uper-
symmetry (SUSY) during the first, low-energy LHC run at 7
a
e-mail: Sven.Heinemeyer@cern.ch
and 8 TeV. However, an optimist may consider that the head-
line discovery of a Higgs boson weighing ∼126 GeV [1,2]
has provided two additional pieces of indirect, circumstan-
tial evidence for SUSY, beyond the many previous motiva-
tions. One piece of circumstantial evidence is provided by the
Higgs mass, which falls within the range 135 GeV calcu-
lated in the minimal SUSY extension of the Standard Model
(MSSM) for masses of the SUSY particles around 1 TeV [3–
15]. The other piece of circumstantial evidence is provided by
measurements of Higgs couplings, which do not display any
significant deviations from Standard Model (SM) predictions
at the present level of experimental accuracy. This disfavours
some composite models but is consistent with the predictions
of simplified SUSY models such as the constrained MSSM
(CMSSM) [ 16–25] with universal input soft SUSY-breaking
masses m
0
for scalars, m
1/2
for fermions as well as A
0
,the
soft SUSY-breaking trilinear coupling and NUHM models
that have non-universal soft SUSY-breaking contributions
to Higgs supermultiplet masses: see [26–30] and [31]for
areview.
That said, the absence of SUSY in the first LHC run
and the fact that the Higgs mass is in the upper part of the
MSSM range both suggest, within simple models such as the
CMSSM and NUHM (see, e.g., [32,33]) as well as in the
pMSSM, that the SUSY particle mass scale may be larger
than had been suggested prior to the LHC, on the basis of
fine-tuning arguments and in order to explain the discrep-
ancy between calculations of (g − 2)
μ
within the SM and the
experimental measurement [34]. A relatively large SUSY
particle mass scale also makes it easier to reconcile SUSY
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with the experimental measurement of BR(B
s
→ μ
+
μ
−
)
[35–37], particularly if tan β (the ratio of SUSY Higgs vac-
uum expectation values, v.e.v.s) is large.
The mathematical connection between the Higgs mass and
the SUSY particle spectrum is provided by calculations of
the lightest SUSY Higgs mass M
h
in terms of the SUSY
particle spectrum [3–11,14,15]: see [38–40] for reviews. As
is well known, one-loop radiative corrections allow M
h
to
exceed M
Z
by an amount that is logarithmically sensitive
to such input parameters as the top squark masses m
˜
t
in the
pMSSM, or the universal m
1/2
and m
0
masses in the CMSSM
and NUHM. Inverting this calculation, the inferred values of
m
˜
t
,orm
1/2
, m
0
and A
0
are exponentially sensitive to the
measured value of M
h
. For this reason, it is essential to make
available and use the most accurate calculations of M
h
within
the MSSM, and to keep track of the unavoidable theoretical
uncertainties in these calculations due to unknown higher-
order corrections, which are now larger than the experimental
measurement error.
Several codes to calculate M
h
are available [41–48]. In
terms of low-energy parameters, the most advanced calcula-
tion is provided by FeynHiggs [14,49–52]. The differences
between the codes are in the few GeV range for relatively
light SUSY spectra, but they may become larger for higher
third family squark masses and values of m
1/2
, m
0
and A
0
.
This is particularly evident in the phenomenological MSSM
(pMSSM), where the soft supersymmetry-breaking inputs to
the SUSY spectrum codes are specified at a low scale, close
to the physical masses of the supersymmetric particles.
In this paper we revisit the constraints on the CMSSM
and NUHM parameter spaces imposed by the Higgs mass
measurement using the significantly improved 2.10.0 ver-
sion of the FeynHiggs code [49–53] that has recently been
released. We situate our discussion in the context of a com-
parison between this and the earlier version FeynHiggs
2.8.6, which has often been used in phenomenological
studies of SUSY parameter spaces (e.g., in [54]), as well as
with SOFTSUSY 3.3.9 [41]. We also discuss the implica-
tions for constraints on SUSY model parameters. Updating
previous related analyses [32,33], we also take into account
the complementary constraint on the CMSSM and NUHM
parameter spaces imposed by the recent experimental mea-
surement of BR(B
s
→ μ
+
μ
−
), and we incorporate the 95 %
CL limit on m
1/2
and m
0
established within the CMSSM by
ATLAS following searches for missing transverse energy,
/E
T
, events using 20/fb of LHC data at 8 TeV [55].
The layout of this paper is as follows. In Sect. 2 we
first summarise the main improvements between the results
implemented in FeynHiggs 2.8.6 and 2.10.0, and
then we present some illustrative results in the pMSSM, dis-
cussing the numerical differences between calculations made
using FeynHiggs versions 2.8.6 and 2.10.0. We then
display in Sect. 3 some representative parameter planes in
the CMSSM, NUHM1 and NUHM2, discussing the inter-
play between the different experimental constraints including
BR(B
s
→ μ
+
μ
−
)as well as M
h
. Section 4 contains a discus-
sion of the variations between the predictions of M
h
made in
global fits to CMSSM and NUHM1 model parameters using
different versions of FeynHiggs and SOFTSUSY. Finally,
Sect. 5 summarises our conclusions.
2 Comparisons of Higgs mass calculations
within the general MSSM
2.1 The improved Higgs mass calculation in FeynHiggs
2.10.0
The evaluation of Higgs boson masses in the MSSM, in par-
ticular of the mass of the lightest Higgs boson, M
h
, has
recently been improved for larger values of the scalar top
mass scale. This new evaluation has been implemented in the
code FeynHiggs 2.10.0, whose details can be found in
[53]. Here we just summarise some salient points.
The code FeynHiggs provides predictions for the
masses, couplings and decay properties of the MSSM Higgs
bosons at the highest currently available level of accuracy
as well as approximations for LHC production cross sec-
tions (for MSSM Higgs decays see also [56] and refer-
ences therein). The evaluation of Higgs boson masses within
FeynHiggs is based on a Feynman-diagrammatic calcula-
tion of the Higgs boson self-energies. By finding the higher-
order corrected poles of the propagator matrix, the loop-
corrected Higgs boson masses are obtained.
The principal focus of the improvements in FeynHiggs
2.10.0 has been to attain greater accuracy for large stop
masses. The versions of FeynHiggs as used, e.g., previ-
ously in [54] included the full one-loop and the leading and
subleading two-loop corrections to the Higgs boson self-
energies (and thus to M
h
). The new version, FeynHiggs
2.10.0 [53], which is used for the evaluations here, con-
tains in addition a resummation of the leading and next-to-
leading logarithms of type log(m
˜
t
/m
t
) in all orders of per-
turbation theory, which yields reliable results for m
˜
t
, M
A
M
Z
. To this end the two-loop Renormalisation-Group Equa-
tions (RGEs) [57,58 ] have been solved, taking into account
the one-loop threshold corrections to the quartic coupling at
the SUSY scale: see [59] and references therein. In this way
at n-loop order the terms
∼ log
n
(m
˜
t
/m
t
), ∼ log
n−1
(m
˜
t
/m
t
) (1)
are taken into account. The resummed logarithms, which are
calculated in the
MS scheme for the scalar top sector, are
matched to the one- and two-loop corrections, where the on-
shell scheme had been used for the scalar top sector. The
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first main difference between FeynHiggs 2.10.0 and
previous versions occurs at three-loop order. As we shall
see, FeynHiggs 2.10.0 yields a larger estimate of M
h
for stop masses in the multi-TeV range and a correspondingly
improved estimate of the theoretical uncertainty, as discussed
in [53]. The improved estimate of the uncertainties arising
from corrections beyond two-loop order in the top/stop sector
is adjusted such that the impact of replacing the running top-
quark mass by the pole mass (see [14]) is evaluated only
for the non-logarithmic corrections rather than for the full
two-loop contributions implemented in FeynHiggs.
Other codes such as SoftSusy [41], SPheno [42,43]
and SuSpect [44] implement a calculation of the Higgs
masses based on a
DR renormalisation of the scalar quark
sector
1
. These codes contain the full one-loop corrections
to the MSSM Higgs masses and implement the most impor-
tant two-loop corrections. In particular, SoftSusy contains
the O(α
2
t
), O(α
b
α
τ
), O(α
2
b
), O(α
b
α
s
), O(α
t
α
s
), O(α
2
τ
) and
O(α
t
α
b
) corrections of [11–13,15] evaluated at zero external
momentum for the neutral Higgs masses. These codes do not
contain the additional resummed higher-order terms included
in FeynHiggs 2.10.0. We return in Sect. 4 to a compari-
son between SoftSusy3.3.9 and FeynHiggs2.10.0.
More recently a calculation of M
h
taking into account
leading three-loop corrections of O(α
t
α
2
s
) has became avail-
able, based on a
DR or a “hybrid” renormalisation scheme
for the scalar top sector, where the numerical evaluation
depends on the various SUSY mass hierarchies, resulting
in the code H3m [46–48], which adds the three-loop correc-
tions to the FeynHiggs result. A brief comparison between
FeynHiggs and H3m can be found in [53,60].
A numerical analysis in the CMSSM including leading
three-loop corrections to M
h
(with the code H3m) was pre-
sented in [60]. It was shown that the leading three-loop terms
can have a strong impact on the interpretation of the measured
Higgs mass value in the CMSSM. Here, with the new ver-
sion of FeynHiggs, we go beyond this analysis by includ-
ing (formally) subleading three-loop corrections as well as a
resummation to all orders of the leading and next-to-leading
logarithmic contributions to M
h
; see above.
2.2 Comparing the improved Higgs mass calculation in
FeynHiggs 2.10.0 with FeynHiggs 2.8.6
In the following we examine the effect of including the
resummation of leading and subleading logarithmic correc-
tions from the (scalar) top sector in the pMSSM. We com-
pare the new FeynHiggs version 2.10.0 withaprevi-
1
Since the differences between the on-shell and DR renormalisation
in the scalar quark sector are formally of higher order, comparisons can
be used to assess the uncertainties in the predictions of the Higgs mass.
ous one, 2.8.6, where the only relevant difference in the
Higgs mass calculation between the two codes consists of the
aforementioned resummation effects. (A comparison includ-
ing SOFTSUSY can be found in Sect. 4.) These corrections
are most sensitive to the soft SUSY-breaking parameters in
the stop sector, m
q
3
in the diagonal entry (which we assume
here to be equal for left- and right-handed stops) and the
trilinear coupling A
t
. To have direct control over these two
parameters, we consider a 10-parameter incarnation of the
MSSM, denoted as the pMSSM10. In the pMSSM10 we set
the squark masses of the first two generations to a common
value m
q
12
, the third-generation squark mass parameters to a
different value m
q
3
, the slepton masses to m
l
and the trilinear
couplings A
t
= A
b
= A
τ
= A. The remaining parameters of
the pMSSM10 are the soft SUSY-breaking parameters in the
gaugino sectors, M
1
, M
2
, M
3
, the Higgs mixing parameter
μ, the CP-odd Higgs mass scale M
A
as well as tan β.
We generate 1000 random sets of the eight parameters
m
q
12
m
l
, M
1
, M
2
, M
3
, tan β,μ and M
A
, without regard to
the experimental constraints. For each of these sets we
vary m
q
3
= 0.5, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 TeV and A/m
q
3
=
0, ±1.0, ±2.0, ±2.4, and we calculate the corresponding
spectra using SOFTSUSY-3.3.9. Using these spectra, we
calculate M
h
with FeynHiggs 2.8.6 and FeynHiggs
2.10.0. We stress that the pMSSM10 spectra are only
meant to illustrate the size of the corrections as a function
of m
q
3
and the trilinear coupling A, and we do not necessar-
ily correspond to phenomenologically interesting regions of
parameter space.
The sizes of the corrections from the (scalar) top sector are
given by the differences (M
h
|
FH2.10.0
− M
h
|
FH2.8.6
) shown
in Fig. 1 as functions of M
h
|
FH2.8.6
. The different panels in
this figure correspond to the different third-generation squark
masses m
q
3
= 0.5 TeV (upper left), 1 TeV (upper right),
2 TeV (middle left), 3 TeV (middle right), 4 TeV (lower left)
and 5 TeV (lower right), whereas the colours dark blue, blue,
light blue, light green, orange, red and dark red correspond to
A/m
q
3
=−2.4, −2.0 , −1.0, 0.0 , 1.0, 2.0 , 2.4, respectively.
At low stop masses of around 500 GeV we see that the resum-
mation corrections are O(0.5) GeV, whereas with increasing
stop masses they may become as large as 5 GeV. The depen-
dence on A/m
q
3
is less significant. We also note that, for
similar values of m
q
3
, the resummation corrections tend to
be smaller for models yielding M
h
∼ 125 GeV than for mod-
els yielding smaller values of M
h
.
The latter effect is related to the (random) choice of M
A
and tan β, with lower M
h
values corresponding to lower
M
A
and smaller tan β.IftheM
h
value without resummed
corrections, i.e., from FeynHiggs 2.8.6, is smaller, the
newly added correction, which is independent of M
A
and
tan β has a larger effect. We should furthermore mention
that the size of the resummed correction stays (mostly)
within the previously predicted estimate for the theoretical
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