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Pengxuan Zhu

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The 96 GeV Diphoton Excess in the Seesaw Extensions of the Natural NMSSM

The Next-to Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM) with a Type-I seesaw mechanism extends the NMSSM by three generations of right-handed neutrino fields to generate neutrino mass. As a byproduct it renders the lightest sneutrino as a viable DM candidate. Due to the gauge singlet nature of the DM, its scattering with nucleon is suppressed in most cases to coincide spontaneously with the latest XENON-1T results. Consequently, broad parameter spaces in the Higgs sector, especially a light Higgsino mass, are resurrected as experimentally allowed, which makes the theory well suited to explain the long standing $b \bar{b}$ excess at LEP-II and the continuously observed $γγ$ excess by CMS collaboration. We show by both analytic formulas and numerical results that the theory can naturally predict the central values of the excesses in its broad parameter space, and the explanations are consistent with the Higgs data of the discovered Higgs boson, $B-$physics and DM physics measurements, the electroweak precision data as well as the LHC search for sparticles. Part of the explanations may be tested by future DM experiments and the SUSY search at the LHC.

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Current Status of Natural NMSSM in Light of LHC 13TeV Data and XENON-1T Results

In the natural realization of the Next-to-minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, Higgsinos tend to be lighter than about several hundred GeVs, which can induce detectable leptonic signals at the LHC as well as large DM-nucleon scattering cross section. We explore the constraints from the direct searches for electroweakino and slepton at the LHC Run II and the latest DM direct detection experiments on the scenario with low fine tuning indicator $Δ_{Z/h} \leq 50$. We find that these experiments are complementary to each other in excluding the scenario, and as far as each kind of experiment is concerned, it is strong enough to exclude a large portion of the parameter space. As a result, the scenario with Bino- or Higgsino-dominated DM is disfavored, and that with Singlino-dominated DM is tightly limited. There are two regions in natural NMSSM parameter space surviving in the current experimental limits. One is featured with a decoupled Singlino-dominated LSP with $μ\simeq m_{\widetildeχ_1^0}$, which cannot be explored by neither DM detections or collider searches. The other parameter space region is featured by $10^{-47}~{\rm cm^2} \lesssim σ^{SI}_{\widetildeχ-p} \lesssim 10^{-46}~{\rm cm^2}$ and the correlation $μ\simeq m_{\widetildeχ_1^0}$, which will be explored by near future DM detection experiments.

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