[Triumf-seminars] TRIUMF Theory Seminar today at 13:00

TRIUMF Seminars triumf-seminars at lists.triumf.ca
Tue Sep 15 05:00:00 PDT 2020


Date/Time: Tue 2020-09-15 at 13:00

Location:  Remote              

Speaker:   Howard Baer (U Oklahoma)

Title:     Naturalness, supersymmetry, the landscape and LHC

Abstract: Weak scale supersymmetry (SUSY) has been, for many years, the dominant paradigm for physics beyond the Standard Model and in fact the simplest model predicted the Higgs mass to lie exactly in the range where it was discovered. And yet the community seems discouraged as to the likelihood of SUSY due to lack of superpartners at LHC and the somewhat large value of the Higgs mass: these are thought to exacerbate the "naturalness" question. A more nuanced evaluation of electroweak naturalness points to a highly natural SUSY mass spectrum characterized by light Higgsino states with mass ~100-200 GeV while the SUSY breaking scale lies in the multi-TeV region. Such a spectrum of superparticles seems to emerge from simple statistical ideas about the string theory landscape of vacua. The natural SUSY particle mass spectrum 
1. gives rise to distinctive SUSY signatures at LHC but 
2. might also allow SUSY to escape LHC detection so that a high energy upgrade of LHC to ~30-50 TeV may be needed.

The required light higgsino states should appear at an e+e- collider operating at CM energy 400-600 GeV: the International Linear Collider or ILC. Requiring naturalness also in the QCD sector, one expects two dark matter particles: the axion and a higgsino-like neutralino where typically the axion makes up the bulk of dark matter. Detection of a higgsino-like WIMP is ultimately expected while the axion would have a suppressed coupling to photons which makes its detection  more challenging than was previously considered.

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Meeting ID: 712 666 151





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