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In this paper we consider a set of soft supersymmetry breaking terms within the NMSSM which leads to a small hierarchy between the supersymmetry breaking scale and the electroweak scale. Specifically only the gaugino masses and the soft term in the Higgs sector are non-vanishing at the GUT scale. This pattern can be found in gaugino mediated models and in higher-dimensional orbifold GUTs. We study the phenomenology of this scenario and find different low energy spectra depending on the Yukawa coupling λ of the NMSSM singlet. In particular, for low values of λ the singlet is the lightest scalar and the singlino is the LSP while for large values of λ both are heavy and the gravitino can be the LSP. The singlet pseudoscalar is very light in a broad range of the parameter space.
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Louis, J., Zarate, L. Hiding the little hierarchy problem in the NMSSM. J. High Energ. Phys. 2015, 62 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2015)062
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