Constraints on Higgs Properties and SUSY Partners in the pMSSM

Abstract

Direct searches for superpartners and precision measurements of the properties of the $\sim 126$ GeV Higgs boson lead to important inter-dependent constraints on the underlying parameter space of the MSSM. The 19/20-parameter p(henomenological)MSSM offers a flexible framework for the study of a wide variety of both Higgs and SUSY phenomena at the LHC and elsewhere. Within this scenario we address the following questions: `What will potentially null searches for SUSY at the LHC tell us about the possible properties of the Higgs boson?' and, conversely, `What do precision measurements of the properties of the Higgs tell us about the possible properties of the various superpartners?' Clearly the answers to such questions will be functions of both the collision energy of the LHC as well as the accumulated integrated luminosity. We address these questions employing several sets of pMSSM models having either neutralino or gravitino LSPs, making use of the ATLAS SUSY analyses at the 7/8 TeV LHC as well as planned SUSY and Higgs analyses at the 14 TeV LHC and the ILC. Except for theoretical uncertainties that remain to be accounted for in the ratios of SUSY and SM couplings, we demonstrate that Higgs coupling measurements at the 14 TeV LHC, and particularly at the 500 GeV ILC, will be sensitive to regions of the pMSSM model space that are not accessible to direct SUSY searches.