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MSSM Model Generation and Parameter Scans: A Consumer
Report
Ahmed IsmailSLAC
MC4BSM2012
JoAnne Hewett, Stefan Hoeche, AI, Tom Rizzo, Matthew Rowley, to appear
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Outline
● Scanning the pMSSM
● LHC SUSY searches
● Monte Carlo issues
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Outline
● Scanning the pMSSM
● LHC SUSY searches
● Monte Carlo issues
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● The MSSM has many free parameters
● mSUGRA doesn't tell the whole story
● Tradeoff between generality and coverage
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● Our approach: impose only experimentally motivated constraints on the full MSSM parameter space phenomenological MSSM
● Minimal flavor violation, no new CPviolating phases, first two generations of sparticles degenerate
● 19 weak scale parameters relevant for colliders
● M1, M
2, M
3, , tan , M
A, q
1,3, u
1,3, d
1,3, l
1,3, e
1,3, A
t,b,
● Generate random points in this parameter space, and test against experimental constraints (cf. Berger, Gainer, Hewett, Rizzo)
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Scan ranges● 50 GeV ≤ |M
1| ≤ 4 TeV
● 100 GeV ≤ |M2, μ| ≤ 4 TeV
● 400 GeV ≤ M3 ≤ 4 TeV
● 1 ≤ tan ≤ 60
● 100 GeV ≤ MA ≤ 4 TeV
● 400 GeV ≤ q1, u
1, d
1 ≤ 4 TeV, 200 GeV ≤ q
3, u
3, d
3 ≤ 4 TeV
● 100 GeV ≤ l, e ≤ 4 TeV
● |At,b,
| ≤ 4 TeV
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● Generate spectra for 3 ∙ 106 points with SOFTSUSY, compare with SuSpect, decay with S(H)DECAY (do small mass splittings “by hand”)
● Throw away models with tachyons, color/charge breaking minima, unbounded scalar potentials
● Require lightest neutralino to be LSP, and impose upper bound on its thermal relic density
● Check against DM direct detection, precision, flavor, LEP, Tevatron measurements
● All charged sparticles > 100 GeV
● Impose LHC stable particle, constraints
2.2 ∙ 105 remaining models
Neutralino LSP
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Can study resulting models....
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pMSSM Higgs:109 GeV – 133 GeV
Rγγ
=
(gg
h
) p
MSS
M /
SMσ
→→γγ
mh (GeV)
Someinterestingmodels....
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Gravitino LSP● One additional parameter: gravitino mass scanned with log prior
from 1 eV to 1 TeV
● No assumption about reheating
● Require gravitino to be LSP
● Impose upper bound on gravitino relic density from nonthermal production through decay of thermal relic NLSP
● NLSP is generally longlived, so stable particle searches become important as well
● BBN constraints
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Gravitino LSP
● Often couldn't rely on existing MSSM codes, particularly for decay tables
● Many possibilities for longlived NLSP● Decays involving gravitinos in existing codes tend
to be either missing or assume massless gravitinos● CalcHEP and MadGraph used for many modes not
included in standard codes like SDECAY
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Outline
● Scanning the pMSSM
● LHC SUSY searches
● Monte Carlo issues
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ATLAS searches
● Generate SUSY events for each neutralino LSP model with PYTHIA, scale with Kfactors from Prospino, pass through PGS
● Analysis code based on 1009.2539, 1103.1697 (Conley, Gainer, Hewett, Le, Rizzo)
● 1/fb: jets + MET, many jets, one/two leptons● 5/fb: jets + MET, many jets, one lepton; updated
signal regions
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ATLAS benchmark pointm
0 = 660 GeV, m
1/2 = 240 GeV
Shape reproduced wellNormalization good
given ~35% uncertaintyquoted by ATLAS
Eve
nts/
100
GeV
meff
(GeV)
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ATLAS searches
● Also: generate 8 TeV events to estimate 2012 LHC performance
● Scale up 7 TeV backgrounds to 8 TeV in each search region, assuming cuts do not change, by “transfer factors” arrived at through simulating backgrounds at both energies with SHERPA 1.4.0, using ME+PS merging (0903.1219)
● Results provide a preliminary estimate of the eventual power of 8 TeV SUSY searches
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Results
full set7 TeV 1/fb
7 TeV 4.7/fb8 TeV 5/fb8 TeV 20/fb
Lightest colored sparticle (GeV)
Num
ber o
f mod
els
/ 100
GeV
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Outline
● Scanning the pMSSM
● LHC SUSY searches
● Monte Carlo issues
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The curse of dimensionality
79% of circle in square 52% of sphere in cube
● As the dimension of a parameter space increases, randomly chosen points tend to be in corners
● Most of our points are “extreme” in some way
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Monte Carlo issues
● We are able to thoroughly test various Monte Carlo tools by looking in corners of parameter space
● We find various incongruities in spectrum generators, cross section calculators, and detector simulations
● While we have considered the MSSM, many of our findings are more general, and should be useful for those doing MC with other theories
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Issue 1: Spectrum generator discrepancies
SuSpect/SOFTSUSY
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Issue 1: Spectrum generator discrepancies
GeV
GeV
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Issue 2: NLO instabilityK
fac
tor
LO (pb)
gluino pair3rd gen. squark pairs1st/2nd gen. squark pairssquark squarksquark gluinoneutralino squarkneutralino gluino
Prospino assumesdegenerate squarks!
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Issue 3: Validation#
of e
vent
sH
HIR
R /
AT
LA
S
m0 (GeV)
m1/2
= 180 GeV
ATLAS 1.04/fb jets + MET2 jets, 3 jets, 4 jets, 4 jets',high mass, average
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Validation: the dark side
● High numbers of signal events for benchmark models with heavy squarks
● Could be cross section (PYTHIA), NLO Kfactor (Prospino), or detector acceptance (PGS)
● Some of these issues do not pose immediate problems for nonMSSM theories, but others do!
● We use PYTHIA + Prospino + PGS, while ATLAS uses HERWIG++ + Prospino + Geant4
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Cross section is doing something...N
LO
H
HIR
R /
AT
LA
S
m1/2
= 180 GeV
ATLAS 1.04/fb jets + MET
m0 (GeV)
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...but acceptance is off as well! ∙ε A
HH
IRR
/ A
TL
AS
m1/2
= 180 GeV
ATLAS 1.04/fb jets + MET2 jets, 3 jets, 4 jets, 4 jets',high mass, average
m0 (GeV)
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Lessons learned
● Uncertainty in generating BSM events● Public fast detector simulations are not necessarily
able to produce accurate event counts in LHC signal regions
● Even production cross sections for a wellstudied model like the MSSM can vary significantly between different codes
● Problems show up in the corners of parameter space—test your programs there!
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Outlook
● The pMSSM is a much more general framework than mSUGRA for studying the MSSM at the LHC
● Future directions: keeping up with the LHC SUSY analyses, detailed stable particle searches with a whole new set of MC issues
● Generating events is relatively painless, but there are potential issues with cross sections and detector simulation, which are relevant to all using these tools
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DELPHES issues1202.6244, Strübig et al.