2008/09/22 by Puneet Batra, Eduardo Ponton, Eduardo Pontón
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Electroweak interaction #Gauge boson #Gauge theory #Higgs boson #Higgs field #Higgs mechanism #Higgs sector #Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Scalar (mathematics) #Spontaneous symmetry breaking #Supersymmetry #Supersymmetry breaking #Symmetry breaking #Technicolor #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.79.035001
published as Phys.Rev.D79:035001,2009 · 34 pages, 5 figures
arxiv created 2008/09/22 · openalex publication_date 2009/02/04 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
In the minimal supersymmetric standard model (the MSSM), the electroweak symmetry is restored as supersymmetry-breaking terms are turned off. We describe a generic extension of the MSSM where the electroweak symmetry is broken in the supersymmetric limit. We call this limit the ``sEWSB'' phase, short for supersymmetric electroweak symmetry breaking. We define this phase in an effective field theory that only contains the MSSM degrees of freedom. The sEWSB vacua naturally have an inverted scalar spectrum, where the heaviest CP-even Higgs state has standard model-like couplings to the massive vector bosons; experimental constraints in the scalar Higgs sector are more easily satisfied than in the MSSM.