| In this thesis we look at two non-minimal models of supersymmetry breaking. In the first model, we study the phenomenology of deflected mirage mediation, a scenario where gravity, anomaly, and gauge mediation contribute to the soft masses, in light of the 7 and 8 TeV runs of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the dark matter direct detection results from XENON and LUX. We find that the parameter space admits models with both simplified and compressed spectra, which should be visible in the next run of the LHC. We also look at the parameter space from the bottom up, using the electroweak fine-tuning measure and find that there are large regions of parameter space which are not fine-tuned. In the second, we look at models of flavored gauge mediation and explore models with a non-abelian flavor symmetry. In these models the MSSM messenger Yukawa couplings are connected by the non-abelian symmetry, forcing us to model them simultaneously. We comment on the spectra and model building challengers in this paradigm. |
