The ILC as a natural SUSY discovery machine and precision microscope: from light higgsinos to tests of unification

Abstract

The requirement of electroweak naturalness in simple supersymmetric models implies the existence of a cluster of four light higgsinos with mass $\sim 100-300$\,GeV, the lighter the better. While such light compressed spectra may be challenging to observe at LHC, the International Linear $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ Collider (ILC) with $\sqrt{s}>2m_{\mathrm{higgsino}}$ would serve as both a SUSY discovery machine and a precision microscope. We study higgsino pair production signatures at the ILC based on full, \texttt{Geant4-}based simulation of the ILD detector concept. We examine several benchmark scenarios that may be challenging for discovery at HL-LHC due to mass differences between the higgsino states between $20$ and $4$\,GeV. Assuming $\sqrt{s}=500$\,GeV and 1000\,fb${}^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity, the individual higgsino masses can be measured to $1-2\%$ precision in case of the larger mass differences, and at the level of $5\%$ for the smallest mass difference case. The higgsino mass splittings are sensitive to the electroweak gaugino masses and allow extraction of gaugino masses to $\sim 3-20\%$ (depending on the model). Extrapolation of gaugino masses via renormalization group running can test the hypothesis of gaugino mass unification. We also examine a case with natural generalized mirage mediation where the unification of gaugino masses at an intermediate scale apparently gives rise to a natural SUSY spectrum somewhat beyond the reach of HL-LHC.

arXiv comment43 pages, 33 figures

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