On-shell renormalization of the chargino and neutralino masses in the MSSM

Abstract

We discuss the choice of input parameters for the renormalization of the chargino and neutralino sector in the minimal supersymmetric standard model in the on-shell scheme. We show that one should choose the masses of a bino-like, a wino-like and a Higgsino-like state as inputs in order to avoid large corrections to the masses of the other eigenstates in this sector. We also show that schemes where the Higgsino-like input state is a neutralino are more stable than those where the mass of the Higgsino-like chargino is used as input. The most stable scheme uses the masses of the wino-like chargino as well as the masses of the bino- and Higgsino-like neutralinos as inputs.