Presented By: Leinweber Institute for Theoretical Physics
HET Seminar | Partially Composite Supersymmetry
Tony Gherghetta (Minnesota)
Partial compositeness can be used to explain the Standard Model fermion mass hierarchy and predict the sfermion mass spectrum in a supersymmetric model. It assumes that the Higgs and third-generation matter superfields are elementary, while the first two matter generations are composite, with a linear mixing between elementary superfields and supersymmetric operators with large anomalous dimensions. This gives rise to a split-like, supersymmetric model that intricately connects the sector responsible for the generation of flavor with supersymmetry breaking to produce a unique sparticle spectrum. The inverted sfermion mass spectrum can be probed at future flavor violation experiments such as Mu2e or searches for the electron and neutron electric dipole moment.