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The Higgs mass as a signature of heavy SUSY

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We compute the mass of the Higgs particle in a scheme in which SUSY is broken at a large scale M SS well above the electroweak scale M EW. Below M SS one assumes one is just left with the SM with a fine-tuned Higgs potential. Under standard unification assumptions one can compute the mass of the Higgs particle as a function of the SUSY breaking scale M SS. For M SS ≳ 1010 GeV one obtains m H = 126 ± 3 GeV, consistent with CMS and ATLAS results. For lower values of M SS the values of the Higgs mass tend to those of a fine-tuned MSSM with m H ≲ 130 GeV. These results support the idea that the measured value of the Higgs mass at LHC may be considered as indirect evidence for the existence of SUSY at some (not necessarily low) mass scale.

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Ibáñez, L.E., Valenzuela, I. The Higgs mass as a signature of heavy SUSY. J. High Energ. Phys. 2013, 64 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2013)064

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