24–26 May 2021
University of Pittsburgh
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Sparticle and Higgs boson masses from the landscape: dynamical vs. spontaneous SUSY breaking

25 May 2021, 15:15
15m
SUSY SUSY I

Speaker

Howard Baer (University of Oklahoma)

Description

models of dynamical SUSY breaking (DSB)-- with a hidden sector
gauge coupling g^2 scanned uniformly-- lead to gaugino condensation
and a uniform distribution of soft parameters on a log scale.
Then soft terms are expected to be distributed as m_{soft}^{-1}
favoring small values.
A scan of DSB soft terms generally leads to m_h<< 125 GeV
and sparticle masses usually below LHC limits.
Thus, the DSB landscape scenario seems excluded from LHC search results.
An alternative is that the exponential suppression of the weak scale is
set anthropically on the landscape via the atomic principle.

Author

Howard Baer (University of Oklahoma)

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