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真空解的弦论格局使物理学家对宇宙常数的大小有了一些了解。 可以将类似的推理应用于超对称粒子物理模型中的SUSY软断裂项的大小:统计上似乎倾向于使用较大的软项,这是由于弱尺度的人为要求所限制的,而该软尺度离100不远 GeV。 对于n = 1的m软n的温和统计抽取(如由于单个F项引起的SUSY破裂所预期的),则轻希格斯质量在〜125 GeV时更可取,而所有粒子均被拉到LHC范围之外。 我们面对各种各样的LHC和WIMP暗物质搜索限制,并从字符串理论领域的肥沃一片中获得了统计预期。 最终结果是LHC和WIMP暗物质探测器可以准确地看到从景观中可以看到的东西:质量为125 GeV的类似标准模型的希格斯玻色子,但仍没有任何颗粒或WIMP暗物质的迹象。 来自n = 1地形的SUSY最有可能出现在LHC的软对立符号Dilepton + jet + MET通道中。 多吨贵重液体WIMP检测器应该能够完全探索n = 1的景观参数空间。
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JHEP04(2019)043
Published for SISSA by Springer
Received: February 5, 2019
Accepted: April 1, 2019
Published: April 4, 2019
LHC SUSY and WIMP dark matter searches confront
the string theory landscape
Howard Baer,
a
Vernon Barger,
b
Shadman Salam,
a
Hasan Serce
b
and Kuver Sinha
a
a
Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Oklahoma,
440 West Brooks, Norman, OK 73019, U.S.A.
b
Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin,
1150 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706 U.S.A.
E-mail: baer@ou.edu, barger@pheno.wisc.edu, shadman.salam@ou.edu,
serce@ou.edu, kuver.sinha@ou.edu
Abstract: The string theory landscape of vacua solutions provides physicists with some
understanding as to the magnitude of the cosmological constant. Similar reasoning can be
applied to the magnitude of the soft SUSY breaking terms in supersymmetric models of
particle physics: there appears to be a statistical draw towards large soft terms which is
tempered by the anthropic requirement of the weak scale lying not too far from ∼ 100 GeV.
For a mild statistical draw of m
n
soft
with n = 1 (as expected from SUSY breaking due to a
single F term) then the light Higgs mass is preferred at ∼ 125 GeV while sparticles are all
pulled beyond LHC bounds. We confront a variety of LHC and WIMP dark matter search
limits with the statistical expectations from a fertile patch of string theory landscape. The
end result is that LHC and WIMP dark matter detectors see exactly that which is expected
from the landscape: a Standard Model-like Higgs boson of mass 125 GeV but as yet no
sign of sparticles or WIMP dark matter. SUSY from the n = 1 landscape is most likely
to emerge at LHC in the soft opposite-sign dilepton plus jet plus MET channel. Multi-ton
noble liquid WIMP detectors should be able to completely explore the n = 1 landscape
parameter space.
Keywords: Supersymmetry Phenomenology, Strings and branes phenomenology
ArXiv ePrint: 1901.11060
Open Access,
c
The Authors.
Article funded by SCOAP
3
.
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2019)043
JHEP04(2019)043
Contents
1 Intro duction 1
2 Statistics of the SUSY breaking scale 3
2.1 Brief review of some previous work and goals of the present work 6
3 Landscape predictions vs. LHC search limits 8
3.1 Landscape predictions for NUHM2 model 8
3.2 Landscape predictions for NUHM3 model 9
4 Landscape predictions vs. WIMP DM search limits 13
5 Conclusions 16
1 Intro duction
It is sometimes lamented that the emergence of the landscape of string vacua [1–3] has ren-
dered string theory non-predictive since how are we to pick out the (meta-stable) vacuum
corresponding to our universe from (perhaps) of order 10
500
possibilities? Such sentiment
ignores one of the great predictions of the latter 20th century [4, 5]: namely that given a
multiverse which includes a vast assortment of pocket-universes with varying cosmological
constants, then it may not be surprising to find Λ ∼ 10
−120
m
4
P
since if it was much bigger,
then galaxy condensation would not occur and we would not even be here to discuss the
issue. The situation is portrayed in figure 1 which depicts the fact that the cosmological
constant ought to be at its most natural value subject to the constraint that we can exist
to observe it. Such anthropic reasoning relies on the existence of a vast landscape of possi-
bilities that is provided for by the discretuum of flux vacua from string theory [1–3, 6, 7].
Can such reasoning be applied to the origin of other mass scales that appear in
fundamental physics?
1
An obvious target would be the magnitude of the weak scale
(m
weak
' m
W,Z,h
' 100 GeV) and why it is suppressed by 16 orders of magnitude com-
pared to the (reduced) Planck scale m
P
' 2.4 × 10
18
GeV. Anthropically, one expects
a universe with electroweak symmetry properly broken such that weak bosons gain mass
m
W,Z
∼ 100 GeV while solutions with charge or color breaking minima would be excluded.
In addition, nuclear physics calculations by Agrawal et al. [9, 10] require that the magni-
tude of the weak scale shouldn’t exceed its measured value by a factor of 2–3 in order to
gain a livable universe.
1
Weinberg states [8]: “The most optimistic hypothesis is that the only constants that scan are the few
whose dimensionality is a positive power of mass: the vacuum energy, and whatever scalar mass or masses
set the scale of electroweak symmetry breaking”.
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JHEP04(2019)043
Figure 1. Log portrayal of expected parameter space of the cosmological constant Λ from the
string theory landscape.
Given that quantum corrections to the Higgs mass diverge quadratically with the
theory cutoff Λ
SM
, it seems the Standard Model (SM) with Λ
SM
m
weak
would be a rare
occurrance within the landscape since one would be required to select only those vacuum
solutions with highly fine-tuned scan parameters. In a landscape containing both SM and
supersymmetric SM solutions (SSM), one would expect vastly more SSM solutions with
m
weak
' 100 GeV since then quantum corrections to m
h
diverge only logarithmically.
In fact, this discussion brings up the issue of how naturalness is connected to vacua
selection in the multiverse. Here we adopt the notion of practical naturalness:
An observable O ≡ o
1
+ ··· + o
n
is natural if all independent contributions
o
i
to O are comparable to or less than O.
This is because if any o
i
O, then some other contribution o
j
(j 6= i) would have to be
fine-tuned to a large opposite-sign value to keep O at its measured value. The notion of
practical naturalness may be compared with what Douglas calls stringy naturalness [11]:
An effective field theory (or specific coupling or observable) T
1
is more nat-
ural in string theory than T
2
if the number of phenomenologically acceptable
vacua leading to T
1
is larger than the number leading to T
2
.
In a landscape of vacua where independent contributions o
i
to observable O are uniformly
distributed, then it follows that many more vacua are likely to exist where the o
i
are
comparable to O than where some o
i
O so that some other value o
j6=i
' −o
i
. Thus, we
expect these two definitions to be equivalent descriptions of naturalness. The landscape,
if it is to be predictive, is predictive in the statistical sense: the more prevalent solutions
are statistically more likely. This gives the connection between landscape statistics and
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JHEP04(2019)043
naturalness: vacua with natural observables are expected to be far more common than
vacua with unnatural observables.
2
Thus, in this paper we will focus on vacua solutions which include the Minimal Super-
symmetric Standard Model (MSSM) as their weak scale effective theory. This restricts our
attention to a fertile patch of landscape solutions which include the SM as the weak scale
effective theory (in accord with experiment) but where the weak scale is stable against
quantum corrections (as in the MSSM). We will further assume that the MSSM arises
from a 4-d supergravity theory (SUGRA) where SUSY breaking occurs via spontaneous
SUGRA breaking in a hidden sector of the theory with a, perhaps, complicated SUSY
breaking sector including possibly numerous SUSY breaking F- and D-term fields which
gain vevs. The question that can be addressed is then: what does a statistical sampling of
this fertile patch of the landscape say about the scale of SUSY breaking, and hence the like-
lihood of observable signals at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) or at WIMP dark
matter direct and indirect detection experiments? Indeed, this question has already been
investigated early on by Douglas et al. [13–15], Susskind [12] and by Dine et al. [16, 17].
(For some reviews, see e.g. refs. [18, 19].)
2 Statistics of the SUSY breaking scale
In this section, we assume a vast ensemble of string vacua states which give rise to a D = 4,
N = 1 supergravity effective field theory at high energies. Furthermore, the theory consists
of a visible sector containing the MSSM along with a perhaps large assortment of fields
that comprise the hidden sector. The scalar potential is given by the usual supergravity
form [20]
V = e
K/m
2
P
g
ij
D
i
W D
j
W
∗
−
3
m
2
P
|W |
2
+
1
2
X
α
D
2
α
(2.1)
= e
K/m
2
P
X
i
|F
i
|
2
− 3
|W |
2
m
2
P
!
+
1
2
X
α
D
2
α
(2.2)
where W is the holomorphic superpotential, K is the real K¨ahler potential and F
i
= D
i
W =
DW/Dφ
i
≡ ∂W/∂φ
i
+ (1/m
2
P
)(∂K/∂φ
i
)W are the F -terms and D
α
∼
P
φ
†
gt
α
φ are the
D-terms and the φ
i
are chiral superfields. Supergravity is assumed to be broken sponta-
neously via the super-Higgs mechanism either via F -type breaking or D-type breaking or
in general a combination of both leading to a gravitino mass m
3/2
= e
K/2m
2
P
|W |/m
2
P
. The
(metastable) minima of the scalar potential can be found by requiring ∂V/∂φ
i
= 0 with
∂
2
V/∂φ
i
∂φ
j
> 0 to ensure a local minimum. The cosmological constant is given by
Λ
cc
= m
4
hidden
− 3e
K/m
2
P
|W |
2
/m
2
P
(2.3)
2
Since the landscape allows for an apparently unnatural value of Λ
cc
m
4
P
, it is sometimes interpreted
that vacua with other highly unnatural observables should also be entertained. In the case of Λ
cc
, we should
find ourselves in a universe where the cosmological constant is as natural as possible such that we gain a
livable universe. Then we would expect Λ
cc
∼ 10
−120
m
4
P
rather than say 10
−200
m
4
P
.
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