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Loop suppressed electroweak symmetry breaking and naturally heavy superpartners

In this article, a model is presented in which O ( 10 TeV ) stop masses, typically required by the Higgs boson mass in supersymmetric models, do not originate from soft supersymmetry breaking terms that would drive the Higgs mass squared parameter to large negative values but rather from the mixing with vectorlike partners. Their contribution to the Higgs mass squared parameter is reduced to threshold corrections and, thus, it is one loop suppressed compared to usual scenarios. New fermion and scalar partners of the top quark with O ( 10 TeV ) masses are predicted.

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS↗

Natural Covariant Planck Scale Cutoffs and the Cosmic Microwave Background Spectrum

We calculate here the impact of quantum gravity–motivated ultraviolet cutoffs on inflationary predictions for the cosmic microwave background spectrum. We model the ultraviolet cutoffs fully covariantly to avoid possible artifacts of covariance breaking. Imposing these covariant cutoffs results in the production of small, characteristically k-dependent oscillations in the spectrum. The size of the effect scales linearly with the ratio of the Planck to Hubble lengths during inflation. As a result, the relative size of the effect could be as large as one part in 10 5 ; i.e., eventual observability may not be ruled out.

79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS↗