Is SUSY Natural?

Details Is SUSY Natural? Is SUSY Natural?

2008-04-30

arxiv.org/abs/0804.4718v2

NewJ.Phys.10:085003,2008

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

9 pages, LaTeX, 3 tables. Invited article to appear in the New Journal of Physics, Special Focus Issue "Particle Physics at th

Scientific paper

10.1088/1367-2630/10/8/085003

Spacetime supersymmetry is widely believed to play an important role in most fundamental theories of physics, and is usually invoked in order to address problems of naturalness. In this paper, we examine the question of whether supersymmetry itself is ``natural'' (i.e., likely to exist as a fundamental component of nature at high energy scales). Our approach to answering this question is based on a statistical examination of the heterotic string landscape, and our conclusion is that supersymmetry is an exceedingly rare phenomenon. We also find that the likelihood of supersymmetry appearing at the string scale is dependent on the gauge symmetries present at the string scale, with certain gauge groups strongly favoring the appearance of N=1 supersymmetry and others not. This article summarizes several recent papers, yet also contains some new results. In particular, one new result is that the heterotic landscape appears to favor either the non-supersymmetric Standard Model or an N=1 SUSY GUT gauge group at the string scale; by contrast, the opposite outcomes (namely the MSSM or a non-supersymmetric GUT) are significantly disfavored.

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