Published January 1, 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

PeV-scale supersymmetry

  • 1. Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics (MCTP), Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 (United States)

Description

Although supersymmetry has not been seen directly by experiment, there are powerful physics reasons to suspect that it should be an ingredient of nature and that superpartner masses should be somewhat near the weak scale. I present an argument that if we dismiss our ordinary intuition of fine-tuning, and focus entirely on more concrete physics issues, the PeV scale might be the best place for supersymmetry. PeV-scale supersymmetry admits gauge coupling unification, predicts a Higgs mass between 125 GeV and 155 GeV, and generally disallows flavor changing neutral currents and CP-violating effects in conflict with current experiment. The PeV scale is motivated independently by dark matter and neutrino mass considerations

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
71
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 015013-015013.5
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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(c) 2005 The American Physical Society