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Next-to-minimal SOFTSUSY

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Allanach, BC 
Athron, P 
Tunstall, LC 
Voigt, A 
Williams, AG 

Abstract

We describe an extension to the SOFTSUSY program that provides for the calculation of the sparticle spectrum in the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM), where a chiral superfield that is a singlet of the Standard Model gauge group is added to the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) fields. Often, a Z3 symmetry is imposed upon the model. SOFTSUSY can calculate the spectrum in this case as well as the case where general Z3 violating (denoted as Z3) terms are added to the soft supersymmetry breaking terms and the superpotential. The user provides a theoretical boundary condition for the couplings and mass terms of the singlet. Radiative electroweak symmetry breaking data along with electroweak and CKM matrix data are used as weak-scale boundary conditions. The renormalisation group equations are solved numerically between the weak scale and a high energy scale using a nested iterative algorithm. This paper serves as a manual to the NMSSM mode of the program, detailing the approximations and conventions used.

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Keywords

Sparticle, NMSSM, Higgs

Journal Title

Computer Physics Communications

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Journal ISSN

0010-4655
1879-2944

Volume Title

185

Publisher

Elsevier BV
Sponsorship
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/L000385/1)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/G000581/1)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/J000434/1)