"LHC Higgs Boson Implications for Supersymmetry"

ABSTRACT:

 

Weak-scale supersymmetry has long been a dominant paradigm for physics beyond the standard model and particle dark matter, but it is now being challenged by a wealth of experimental data. I will begin by reviewing attempts to quantify naturalness in supersymmetry, stressing the many subjective choices that impact the results both quantitatively and qualitatively. I then describe recent work to reconcile naturalness with the experimental constraints in the frameworks of focus point supersymmetry and gauge-mediated supersymemtry breaking.