We study the role the Higgs sector can play in mediating supersymmetry breaking in the context of the MSSM and its most minimal extension. Higgs-messenger interactions can supplement gauge mediated supersymmetry breaking in important ways: they may provide a solution to the μ/Bμ problem and at the same time generate generate large trilinear Higgs-squark couplings, which are well motivated in the light of the observation of a Higgs boson with mass near 126 GeV. We identify the A/mH problem, which is analogous of the μ/Bμ problem, as well as several solutions. Moreover we present a general framework for studying Higgs mediated supersymmetry breaking, which enables us to study the possible implications of strongly coupled hidden sectors.
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Physics and Astronomy
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Ph.D.
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Higgs bosons
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Supersymmetry
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by Simon Knapen
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Graduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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