Soft Probes of SU(5) Unification

Abstract

We explore the sparticle and Higgs spectroscopy of an SU(5) inspired extension of the constrained minimal supersymmetric standard model (CMSSM). The universal soft parameter m_0 is replaced by m_{\bar 5} and m_{10}, where m_{\bar 5} and m_{10} denote universal soft scalar masses associated with fields in the five and ten dimensional representations of SU(5). The special case m_{\bar 5} << m_{10} yields a rather characteristic sparticle spectroscopy which can be tested at the LHC. We highlight a few benchmark points in which the lightest neutralino saturates the WMAP bound on cold dark matter abundance.

Comments: 23 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables