Speaker
Description
I present a brief overview of SUSY phenomenology: where theory
intersects with experiment. Three areas are addressed: 1. indirect effects
including g-2, B-decays, EDMs; 2. dark matter signatures featuring
thermally produced WIMPs and non-thermal SUSY dark matter including
axions and light moduli; and 3. collider signatures featuring standard
LHC searches which then confront the naturalness issue.
I explain how older conventional measures overestimated SUSY finetuning
and show that plenty of natural parameter space is left to explore.
The advent of the string landscape percolated slowly into
SUSY phenomenology, but now rather general arguments suggest a landscape
draw to large soft terms modulated by requiring a derived weak scale
in each viable pocket universe be not too far from our measured value so that
atoms and complexity can arise. This stringy naturalness then predicts
m(h)~125 GeV with sparticles largely beyond present LHC reach.
