High Energy Thresholds in SUSY GUTs - A refined analysis

Abstract

In a previous paper we have developed a novel method in order to parametrize the effect of the large number of HETs into as fewer parameters as possible. Apart from its obvious advantages this parametrization serves as a vehicle for the examination of the validity of a minimal SO(10) model concerning a series of constraints. Among them is demand for unification of the gauge couplings, the experimental values of the strong coupling constant and lower experimental bound of the proton lifetime. All of these claims lead to preferred regions both in the soft the superheavy parameter space. In this paper we give the necessary updates of our results which stem mainly from the recent experimental measurements. We also include some additions in our analysis involving the universal trilinear coupling A_0 and the rate x, which is related to superheavy vevs. Finally we cross-check the preferred regions of the parameter space and narrow the even more by applying new constraints based on the results of the LHC experiment for the mass of the Higgs particle and the supersymmetry exclusion limits.