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Supersymmetry at High Luminosity LHC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-01-06 v1

Abstract

Weak-scale supersymmetry (SUSY) is well motivated as a technically natural solution to the gauge hierarchy problem. LHC limits on superpartners, however, have sharpened the Little Hierarchy problem, raising the question of why mweakmsoftm_{weak} \ll m_{soft}. We review current collider and dark matter constraints and their implications for leading SUSY-breaking scenarios. Electroweak naturalness is revisited using a weak-scale measure that avoids ambiguities associated with high-scale fine-tuning. Also, within the string landscape, soft terms are statistically favored to be large, while anthropic selection enforces a weak scale near the observed value. This framework often termed \emph{stringy naturalness} -- naturally accommodates mh125m_h \simeq 125 GeV while placing sparticles above current LHC limits. Updated HL-LHC projections for non-universal Higgs mass (NUHM) models -- the most plausible realization consistent with above picture -- show that searches for higgsinos, stops, and heavy Higgs bosons will soon begin to probe the core of the viable parameter space.

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@article{arxiv.2601.01066,
  title  = {Supersymmetry at High Luminosity LHC},
  author = {Kairui Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.01066},
  year   = {2026}
}
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