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Fine-tuned vs. natural supersymmetry: what does the string landscape predict?

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-09-28 v2

Abstract

A vast array of (metastable) vacuum solutions arise from string compactifications, each leading to different 4-d laws of physics. The space of these solutions, known as the string landscape, allows for an environmental solution to the cosmological constant problem. We examine the possibility of an environmental solution to the gauge hierarchy problem. We argue that the landscape favors softly broken supersymmetric models over particle physics models containing quadratic divergences, such as the Standard Model. We present a scheme for computing relative probabilities for supersymmetric models to emerge from the landscape. The probabilities are related to the likelihood that the derived value of the weak scale lies within the Agrawal et al. (ABDS) allowed window of values leading to atoms as we know them. This then favors natural SUSY models over unnatural (SUSY and other) models via a computable probability measure.

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@article{arxiv.2206.14839,
  title  = {Fine-tuned vs. natural supersymmetry: what does the string landscape predict?},
  author = {Howard Baer and Vernon Barger and Dakotah Martinez and Shadman Salam},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.14839},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

19 pages with 3 .png figures; version 2 contains added figure and some clarifying text

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