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Title: Status of weak scale supersymmetry after LHC Run 2 and ton-scale noble liquid WIMP searches

Journal Article · · European Physical Journal. Special Topics

After completion of LHC Run 2, the ATLAS and CMS experiments had collected of order 139 fb–1 of data at √s = 13 TeV. While discovering a very Standard Model-like Higgs boson of mass mh ≃ 125 GeV, no solid signal for physics beyond the Standard Model has emerged so far at LHC. In addition, no WIMP signals have emerged so far at ton-scale noble liquid WIMP search experiments. For the case of weak scale supersymmetry (SUSY), which is touted as a simple and elegant solution to the gauge hierarchy problem and likely low energy limit of compactified string theory, LHC has found rather generally that gluinos are beyond about 2.2 TeV whilst top squark must lie beyond 1.1 TeV. These limits contradict older simplistic notions of naturalness that emerged in the 1980s–1990s, leading to the rather pessimistic view that SUSY is now excluded except for perhaps some remaining narrow corners of parameter space. Yet, this picture ignores several important developments in SUSY/string theory that emerged in the 21st century: 1. the emergence of the string theory landscape and its solution to the cosmological constant problem, 2. a more nuanced view of naturalness including the notion of “stringy naturalness”, 3. the emergence of anomaly-free discrete R-symmetries and their connection to R-parity, Peccei-Quinn symmetry, the SUSY μ problem and proton decay and 4. the importance of including a solution to the strong CP problem. Rather general considerations from the string theory landscape favor large values of soft terms, subject to the vacuum selection criteria that electroweak symmetry is properly broken (no charge and/or color breaking (CCB) minima) and the resulting magnitude of the weak scale is not too far from our measured value. Then stringy naturalness predicts a Higgs mass mh ~ 125 GeV whilst sparticle masses are typically lifted beyond present LHC bounds. Lastly, in light of these refinements in theory perspective confronted by LHC and dark matter search results, we review the most likely LHC, ILC and dark matter signatures that are expected to arise from weak scale SUSY as we understand it today.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0009956
OSTI ID:
1777464
Report Number(s):
arXiv:2002.03013; TRN: US2209464
Journal Information:
European Physical Journal. Special Topics, Vol. 229, Issue 21; ISSN 1951-6355
Publisher:
SpringerCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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